Ela Przybylo – författare

The Routledge International Handbook of Global Asexualities and Aromanticisms is a first-of-its-kind volume bringing together scholarship and activism on asexualities and aromanticisms from across the world. Including contributions from Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Africa, this collection speaks to the nuances of asexual and aromantic lived practices, embodiments, and relationalities across geopolitical contexts.Bringing attention to new global scholarship and writing on asexuality and aromanticism within and beyond identitarian frameworks, this volume pushes the limits of how asexualities and aromanticisms can be understood, by whom, and for what purposes. Featuring the work of scholars, activists, and creatives, Global Asexualities and Aromanticisms is a text that has something to offer to everyone, bridging disciplines, regions, and methodologies. It also demonstrates the pervasiveness and diversity of different compulsory forms of romance and sexuality, as well as the variegated ways people navigate them.This ambitious volume is relevant to gender/sexuality scholars, activists, students, and individuals on the asexual and aromantic spectrums who are engaging with the complexities of sexual and romantic structures, as well as striving to build bridges, solidarities, and coalitions between geographically dispersed communities.

Why and how menstrual pain needs to be incorporated into discussions of gender, embodiment, and disabilityHoning a “cranky” approach to being a menstruating body expected to accept and embrace trauma, Ungendering Menstruation examines menstrual suppression, toxicity, and the cooptation of menstrual positivity rhetoric. Drawing on their own experiences as a toxic shock survivor and a menstrual pain and period dysphoria sufferer, Ela Przybyło questions why, on what terms, and for whom menstruation has been fixed around experiences of pain. Instead, they present a vision for menstrual justice that refuses the womaning of bleeding and the further erasure, dismissal, and denial of menstrual pain as real pain. If menstruating is framed as somatechnically elective, Przybyło contends, it provides avenues for both celebrating and appreciating cultures of bleeding as well as for remaining critical of the ways in which bleeding has been used as a transphobic and sexist tool to fix gender in place.

Ugliness or unsightliness is much more than a quality or property of an individual’s appearance—it has long functioned as a social category that demarcates access to social, cultural, and political spaces and capital. The editors of and authors in this collection harness intersectional and interdisciplinary approaches in order to examine ugliness as a political category that is deployed to uphold established notions of worth and entitlement. On the Politics of Ugliness identifies and challenges the harmful effects that labels and feelings of ugliness have on individuals and the socio-political order. It explores ugliness in relation to the intersectional processes of racialization, colonization and settler colonialism, gender-making, ableism, heteronormativity, and fatphobia. On the Politics of Ugliness asks that we fight against visual injustice and imagine new ways of seeing.

Ugliness or unsightliness is much more than a quality or property of an individual’s appearance—it has long functioned as a social category that demarcates access to social, cultural, and political spaces and capital. The editors of and authors in this collection harness intersectional and interdisciplinary approaches in order to examine ugliness as a political category that is deployed to uphold established notions of worth and entitlement. On the Politics of Ugliness identifies and challenges the harmful effects that labels and feelings of ugliness have on individuals and the socio-political order. It explores ugliness in relation to the intersectional processes of racialization, colonization and settler colonialism, gender-making, ableism, heteronormativity, and fatphobia. On the Politics of Ugliness asks that we fight against visual injustice and imagine new ways of seeing.