„NO STRAIGHT LINES!” – DIE COMIC-KÖRPER DER NICHT-BINÄREN
„NO STRAIGHT LINES!” – GRAPHIC NOVELS AND THE BODIES OF NON-BINARIES

Summary/Abstract: „No straight lines!” – Graphic Novels and the Bodies of Non-Binaries. Focussing on 19th century story of Abel/Herculine Barbin, this text traces the medical misrecognition in reading an intersexed body properly. This fact becomes the starting point for a close reading of non-binary gender representations, depicted in contemporary Graphic Novels. Anatomical diagrams are replaced by the sequential interconnections of words and images, found in Jamie Cortez’ Sexile (2004) and Ins A Kromminga’s Where no Man has Gone Before (2015). The latter negotiates historical accounts of Intersex, while the former is concerned with the reconstruction of a transnational transgender biography.

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