In this Issue

Table of Contents

Editors’ Note

Cynthia Chris, Matt Brim
pp. 9-13
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2016.0005
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Introduction: Survival, From the Other End of the Telescope

Taylor Black, Elena Glasberg, Frances Bartkowski
pp. 14-29
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2016.0016
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Part I. Survival Lenses

The Veering Escapology of Sharon Hayes and Patty Hearst

Katherine Brewer Ball
pp. 33-51
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2016.0025
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Suicide and Survival in the Work of Kara Walker

Tiffany Johnson Bidler
pp. 52-72
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2016.0003
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How to Survive: AIDS and Its Afterlives in Popular Media

Jih-Fei Cheng
pp. 73-92
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2016.0013
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Part II. Untimely Survivors

Who Is Chandni bibi?: Survival as Embodiment in Disaster Disrupted Northern Pakistan

Omer Aijazi
pp. 95-110
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2016.0015
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“In This Told-Backward Biography”: Marianne Moore Against Survival in Her Queer Archival Poetry

Elien Arckens
pp. 111-127
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2016.0020
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The Subjects of Survival: The Anti-Intersectional Routes of Breast Cancer

Amy L. Brandzel
pp. 128-151
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2016.0008
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Vision and Precarity in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis

Golnar Nabizadeh
pp. 152-167
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2016.0014
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Part III. the Mesh: Survival In-Between

Ornamenting the Unthinkable: Visualizing Survival under Occupation

Rebecca A. Adelman, Wendy Kozol
pp. 171-187
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2016.0010
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Special Affects: Mermaids, Prosthetics, and the Disabling of Feminine Futurity

Cynthia Barounis
pp. 188-204
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2016.0030
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Surviving Codespace: Tracing Lived Space through Digital Literary Writing

Laura Shackelford
pp. 205-221
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2016.0002
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The Story of Oil

Abigail Simon
pp. 222-225
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2016.0007
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Visual Marginalia: Marina Zurkow’s Immortal Trash

Marina Zurkow
pp. 226-251
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2016.0027
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Artist Statement

Elena Glasberg
pp. 250-251
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2016.0031
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Part IV. Classics Revisited: Valerie Solanas’s Scum Manifesto

Spitfire and Sass: Valerie Solanas’s “A Young Girl’s Primer” and the Creative Possibilities of a Survival Self

Breanne Fahs
pp. 255-267
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2016.0011
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Kill Daddy: Reproduction, Futurity, and the Survival of the Radical Feminist

Mairead Sullivan
pp. 268-282
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2016.0012
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Part V. Poetry

A Conversation with My Mother

Miriam Piilonen
pp. 285-286
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2016.0024
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Anecdotes, an Aphorism from Billy Bob Thornton

Amber Moore
pp. 287-288
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2016.0004
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Sex Ed

Deirdre Daly
pp. 289-291
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2016.0023
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Cold Pastoral, and: Nuts

Jen DeGregorio
pp. 292-294
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2016.0028
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Dear Alison, and: Dear Alison

Christine Larusso
pp. 295-296
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2016.0026
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Rana Plaza

Erin Murphy
pp. 297-300
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2016.0009
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Next Witness, and: Sunset Limited

Georgia Pearle
pp. 301-303
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2016.0019
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Part VI. Prose

My Own Chimera

Erica Tom
pp. 304-305
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2016.0022
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Where We’ll Leave This for Now

Jessica Estep
pp. 309-313
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2016.0006
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Hearing Voices

Sokunthary Svay
pp. 314-318
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2016.0017
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Part VII. Book Reviews

The Mothership Strikes Back

Ahuva Cohen
pp. 321-325
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2016.0018
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Posthuman Fantasies

Sarah Kessler
pp. 326-330
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2016.0021
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Playful Paws

Lisa Poggiali
pp. 331-335
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2016.0029
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Aesthetics, Ethics, and Objects in the Anthropocene

Bethany Doane
pp. 336-338
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2016.0001
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Part VIII. Alerts and Provocations

The Queer Art of Survival

Lana Lin, H. Lan Thao Lam
pp. 341-346
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2016.0000
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