目次

1. Introduction: On the Politics of Ugliness (Sara Rodrigues and Ela Przybylo) 2. Ugliness (Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer) 3. Listening to the Ugliness of Hetero-Erotic Miscommunication in Bruno Dumont’s Twentynine Palms (Yetta Howard) 4. “Put On All Your Make-Up and Cry It Off In Public”: The Function of Ugliness in Femme Grieving Practices (Andi Schwartz) 5. I Want to Kill Myself (Vivek Shraya, Photography by Zachary Ayotte) 6. The Lesson of the Cockroach: Towards an Ethics of Ugliness (Esther Hutfless and Elisabeth Schäfer) 7. (Un)Mapping the City Beautiful: Orlando Florida’s ‘Ugly’ Settler Colonial Legacy (Stephanie Wheeler) 8. New Body Project(s): “Excess” Skin the in the Context of Massive Weight Loss (Yasmina Katsulis) 9. The Indiscreet Charms of Spatial Ugliness: An Enquiry into a (Post)Colonial City (Sayandeb Chowdhury) 10. Stigma Stains: The Somaesthetics of Institutional Abjection (Natasha Lushetich) 11. Agatha’s Breasts on a Plate: “Ugliness” as Resistance and Queerness (Bernadette Wegenstein) 12. Imagining Ugliness: Failed Femininities, Shame, and Disgust Written onto the “Other” Body (Breanne Fahs) 13. Ugliness as Colonial Violence: Mediations of Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women (Katherine Morton) 14. Writing Ugly (Melody Ellis) 15. Butler’s Monsters: The Grotesque and the Black Communal Body in Octavia Butler’s Dawn (Jalondra Davis) 16. On the Limitations of the Rhetoric of Beauty: Embracing Ugliness in Contemporary Fat Visual Representations (Stefanie Snider) 17. The Ugly, the Uninvited, the Unseen in the Work of Sia & Emma Sulkowicz (Karina Eileraas Karakuş) 18. Teaching While Ugly: A Story of Racial Pulchritude, Privilege, and Pedagogy (Michael Johnson, Jr.) 19. The Ugly Gaze (Shannon Bell)