ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how ‘queer’ sexual orientations and gender identifications impact upon the act of border-crossing for women* experiencing forced migration. It turns first to Chinese-Jamaican-American poet Staceyann Chin and investigates how her 2019 poetry collection Crossfire represents the relationship between queer experience, sanctuary, and poetry as creative feminist community-making. It then turns to the queer feminist potentials of Wu Tsang’s 2019 hybrid artistic work, One Emerging from a Point of View. Set on the island of Lesbos in 2016, this work circles in a delicately destabilising manner around the notion of the ‘trans’ as the basis for a revised queer feminist politics, and of a radical connectivity between humans, species and environment. Ultimately, this chapter advocates for a queer transcultural feminism that is at once politically grounded and imaginatively transgressive.
