Who cares if there are no women? An Intergenerational Conversation about Queer Parenting
In 'Who Cares If There Are No Women? An Intergenerational Conversation about Queer Parenting', Susan Rudy and Hannah Silva draw upon and theorize their cross-generational experiences of parenting. In doing so, they ask whose interests are served by the notion of a motherline. Written from the perspective of putative mothers who do not identify with the normative role of women as 'feminine self', they argue that queer existence troubles the concept of the motherline and call for a more complex understanding of the relationship betweeen gender, care, and parenting, which revolutionizes understandings and experiences of the motherline.
Appearing alongside essays on the eminent feminist theorist and poet Denise Riley, this essay appeared in Feminist Theory (21.3) in 2020.
Co-authored with the eminent feminist theorist Clare Hemmings, this interview appeared in the European Journal of Women’s Studies in 2019.
Interview with Susan Rudy
Appearing originally in 2010, Susan Rudy’s interview with Caroline Bergvall was republished by Amsterdam University Press in 2023 in Caroline Bergvall’s Medievalist Poetics: Migratory Texts and Transhistorical Methods, edited by Joshua Davies and Caroline Bergvall.
A Queer Response to Caroline Bergvall’s Hyphenated Practice: Toward an Interdependent Model of Reading
Appearing with Edinburgh University Press in 2020, is Susan Rudy’s queer response to Bergvall’s longtime practice of hyphenation.