Have You Seen the Monster?

Abstract Speculative works by writers such as Nalo Hopkinson are rife with attempts to think beyond the category of human through the use of mythical world building. This essay aims to introduce a Black trans reading of Hopkinson's “Greedy Choke Puppy” to analyze the ways that this writer creates a speculation of beingness beyond the project of the “human.” Turning to theorists such as Hortense Spillers, C. Riley Snorton, Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, and other key interlocutors, what unfolds is a rumination on how bodily transformation into nonhuman forms makes legible the possibility of gender fungibility as fugitivity from the treacherous category of “human.”