On the Politics of Ugliness

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)

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)

13. Ugliness as Colonial Violence: Mediations of Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women (Katherine Morton)

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 Karakus)

18. Teaching While Ugly: A Story of Racial Pulchritude, Privilege, and Pedagogy (Michael Johnson, Jr.)

19. The Ugly Gaze (Shannon Bell)