Wronged bodies: gendering human rights abuses in contemporary Greek poetry

This article surveys the ways in which contemporary Greek poetry unveils human rights abuses society order to push for law and social policy reforms that protect gender identity, expression, freedom as well holding governments institutions accountable their enforcement. In context of feminist, anti-fascist, queer activism culture society, this analysis discusses how exposes femicide violence challenges provisions both universality rights. Stemming from post-human feminist critiques dominant ethno-patriarchal structures, becomes a medium collective mourning, public commemoration, justice-seeking victims hate crime, homophobia, racism, misogyny. For past decade, such interventions have reinforced formation counter-archive responding aftermath hatred levelled at LGBTQ communities, women, immigrants Greece. Aiming rendering visible lives deaths gender-based Zak Kostopoulos/ Zackie Oh, Eleni Topaloudi, Vaggelis Giakoumakis, seeks also examine horizon can be reformulated one sustainability interrogates crisis biopolitical survival.