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This essay situates mermaids—fish women—as openings to trans histories in Newfoundland. It develops narratives of human-fish relations at both material and metaphoric levels, considering settler, Indigenous, Black, and trans engagements with fish, fishiness, and fishy being. Ultimately, this essay argues for a trans fishy subjectivity attentive and responsive to the multiple ontological histories and trajectories at the nexus of sense, self, settler, sex, and species.
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Boon, S., Butler, L., Jefferies, D. (2018). Myths: Fishy. In: Autoethnography and Feminist Theory at the Water's Edge. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90829-8_2
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