Out October 1, 2024
A smart and incisive exploration of everyone’s favorite dinosaur movie and the female dinosaurs who embody what it means to be angry, monstrous, and free!
“This book bites back.”
— Tajja Isen, author of Some of My Best Friends
Praise for Clever Girl
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Hold on to your butts, because Hannah McGregor is taking us on a journey through a realm ruled by monstrous women and hungry dinosaurs. In Clever Girl, McGregor offers a queer feminist reading of Jurassic Park that celebrates the wild, the ravenous, and the rageful while honoring the kinship and care we need in our apocalypse survival kits.
— Zena Sharman, author of The Care We Dream Of
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Clever Girl lives up to its title, bringing us a witty, sharp, and deeply moving take on Jurassic Park — a movie easily dismissed as box-office schlock. Hannah McGregor cracks open its feminist utopian potential and reminds us that nothing is disposable when you try to make your way through the end of the world.
— Karen Tongson, author of Normporn: Queer Viewers and the TV That Soothes Us
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Fans of Jurassic Park will love this close reading, which creates fully realized orchestral songs from all the promising queer, feminist, and decolonial bells the movie rings in our minds. Clever Girl is attentive and open, engaging a depth of academic research alongside lively prose that moves at a quick clip.
— andrea bennett, author of Like a Boy but Not a Boy
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This is the dinosaur book I didn’t know I needed. Hannah McGregor unpacks the queer refusals that the dinosaurs embody in the original film and not only offers us ways to re-imagine our relationships with the monstrous parts of ourselves but encourages us to re-think how we understand kinship, community, and collective meaning-making in this era of crisis and transformation. Read it now!
— Zoe Todd, Fish Philosopher
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Co-authored by Lori Beckstead, Ian M. cook, and Hannah McGregor
The growth of scholarly podcasting engenders radical possibilities for how we conceive of knowledge creation and peer review. By investigating the historical development of the norms of scholarly communication, the unique affordances of sound-based scholarship and the transformative potential of new modes of creating and reviewing expert knowledge, Podcast or Perish is the call to action academia needs, by asking how podcasting might change the very ways we think about scholarly work.
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How do you tell the story of a feminist education, when the work of feminism can never be perfected or completed? In A Sentimental Education, Hannah McGregor, the podcaster behind Witch, Please and Secret Feminist Agenda, explores what podcasting has taught her about doing feminist scholarship not as a methodology but as a way of life.
Moving between memoir and theory, these essays consider the collective practices of feminist meaning-making in activities as varied as reading, critique, podcasting, and even mourning. In part this book is a memoir of one person’s education as a reader and a thinker, and in part it is an analysis of some of the genres and aesthetic modes that have been sites of feminist meaning-making: the sentimental, the personal, the banal, and the relatable. Above all, it is a meditation on what it means to care deeply and to know that caring is both necessary and utterly insufficient.
In the tradition of feminist autotheory, this collection works outward from the specificity of McGregor’s embodied experience – as a white settler, a fat femme, and a motherless daughter. In so doing, it invites readers to reconsider the culture, media, political structures, and lived experiences that inform how we move through the world separately and together.
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Co-edited by Hannah McGregor, Julie Rak, & Erin Wunker
Published November 15th, 2018CanLit — the commonly used short form for English Canadian Literature as a cultural formation and industry—has been at the heart of several recent public controversies. Why? Because CanLit is breaking open to reveal the accepted injustices at its heart. It is imperative that these public controversies and the issues that sparked them be subject to careful and thorough discussion and critique.
Refuse provides a critical and historical context to help readers understand conversations happening about CanLit presently. One of its goals is to foreground the perspectives of those who have been changing the conversation about what CanLit is and what it could be. Topics such as literary celebrity, white power, appropriation, class, rape culture, and the ongoing impact of settler colonialism are addressed by a diverse gathering of writers from across Canada.