Situated imagination of Zionist borders: the feminist gender nonconforming photography of Yael Meiry

How does the history of a nation’s relation to transgender subjects affect their situated imaginings national territorial borders, collectivity boundaries and gender barriers? This article offers an answer this question through close reading photographs by artist Yael Meiry. Based on visual culture analysis Meiry’s intervention in dominant Zionist historical narrative I argue that using photography as arena feminist, nonconforming imagining, Meiry upturns normative border-making territory, collective gender, demonstrating they are always interrelated interconnected. The focuses ways which imagination challenge imposed normativity mechanisms bordering it is embodied three icons boundaries, barriers, were constructed part invention tradition: map, icon borders; palm tree, boundaries; fist, barriers.