Introduction

In short, who, I ask you, would agree to call himself abject, subject of or subject to abjection?Julia Kristeva, The Powers of HorrorThe thematic issue “Monstrous Genealogies: Reclaiming Queer Lives and Embodiments” arises from our desire to continue the debates initiated at the III Monster’s Summer School, held from September 18th to 22nd, 2023, at the Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra, Portugal. It brings together a series of contributions from the Summer School partic...