Cult baby: I am monster
The performative & fluid (auto)biographical piece i am monster, here presented in written form, is part of an ongoing artistic research project, cult baby (11/22- present). A collection of text fragments tenderly venture formulations of a non-binary identity, embedded in a reference frame of a S...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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31 Mar 2026
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Continuum
Year: 2026, Volume: 40, Issue: 3, Pages: 541-545 |
| ISSN: | 1469-3666 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/10304312.2026.2648706 |
| Online Access: | Resolving-System, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2026.2648706 Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10304312.2026.2648706 
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| Author Notes: | Christina Bauernfeind |
| Summary: | The performative & fluid (auto)biographical piece i am monster, here presented in written form, is part of an ongoing artistic research project, cult baby (11/22- present). A collection of text fragments tenderly venture formulations of a non-binary identity, embedded in a reference frame of a Southern-German and female heritage. We hold eachother while we break away. Don’t let go, MOTHER. You are not with us, I know, but please hold me. Stories of Catholic power and submission, of neglect, an Early Modern rebellion, met with extreme violence, dating back to the witch mass murders in the lands I call home. An excruciating Modernity you got there, FATHER. My Modernity - traces of a sisterhood. Source material of scornful trials salvaged stories of what, in today’s age, would be called a feminist uprising. In my village, Schutterwald, Anna Katherina Sütterlin, carrying the literal name of my great-grandmother, raised up a band of women, girls, persons, aged 14, against patriarchal violence. So it begins, she cast embers in the face of submission. July 1557 they all burned. Sisters in name. History is slippery, though. So we pray: (…) |
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| Item Description: | Gesehen am 28.05.2026 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1469-3666 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/10304312.2026.2648706 |