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Creative Critical Interventions for Social Justice
This volume reimagines conventional academic forms to highlight creative-critical approaches grounded in queer, antiracist, transfeminist, and decolonial frameworks.
Creative Critical Interventions for Social Justice is an edited volume grounded in a commitment to politically engaged research. It examines knowledge that is often excluded from conventional academic production and explores the potential for creative critical writing and cultural production to advance social justice-focused research and practice. It highlights creative-critical research by queer and/or racialized scholars, accompanied by reflections on the possibilities and pitfalls of drawing on researcher positionality in knowledge production.
196 pages | 6.14 x 9.21 | © 2026
Comparative Literature and Culture
Literature and Literary Criticism: General Criticism and Critical Theory
Table of Contents
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Natasha Tanna, Abeyamí Ortega Domínguez and Hakan Sandal-Wilson
Part I: Poetic possibilities for youth and climate justice
1 Paradoxically, writing ecopoetry: a reflection on creative tools, knowledge and change
Yairen Jerez Columbié
2 ‘Britishness is not Whiteness’: youth poets ‘bite back’ at the education survival complex through killjoy call-and-response towards creative abolition
Dita N. Love, Debbie Yeboah, Dami Folayan, Shirley May and Princess Arinola Adegbite
Part II: Conversations for change: life stories of Black, queer and trans kinship and parenthood
3 Heather and Maggie
Haydn Kirnon
4 ’If you’re gay, you’re lucky to be a parent’: current issues for queer and trans families in the UK
Marcin W. Smietana
Part III: Paradox and parody: the politics of positionality and relationality
5 Notes on lying
Mathelinda Nabugodi
6 Queer Mediterranean futures: an {uneventful} performative text
Anna T.
7 The interview: scholarship, sincerity, suspicion
Dilar Dirik
Part IV: Reparative rigour: caring for the archives of the living and the dead
8 Writing at the limits of reason: or, why is it so damn hard to write? We were never meant to be written; we were meant to dance
MJ Hunter Brueggemann, Bea Wohl and Koundinya Dhulipalla
9 the smell of rain on hot concrete
Kerry McInerney
Index