ABSTRACT
Textured by rage, tempered by writing, the relationship between Susan Stryker's transsexual monstrosity and Victor Frankenstein's monster produces a uniquely queer fury that reaches kraken-like into the space of reading. This chapter traces the movements of the sticky suction affect and the changes it conveys in thinking through the relationship between Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Susan Stryker's "My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage". It builds on the somatechnics ever-present in both, Stryker's and Shelley's, work pieces in order to develop a richer understanding of the kinds of somatic, affective, and theoretical changes they engender. The chapter discusses how the monstrous feelings as elucidated by Stryker, along with the nodes of diffraction they create—monstrous gender, language as a tool for resistance to abjection, queer kinship that leads to transformation, monstrous fury that reconfigures language—map onto us, her readers, pushing us to feel in kind.
