December 2025
Softcover, 48 pages, 8.5 x 5.5 inches
Design by Rachel Valinsky
Printed in Pennsylvania
Edition of 250
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About the book
Strange Biology, Charlotte Strange’s first chapbook, opens with a social media advertisement marketing a probiotic as an alternative to the “nuclear bomb” of antibacterial acne medication. As Strange investigates the treatment of the human body as a landscape submissive to medical intervention, they ruminate on the contemporary relationship between microbes, gut-directed medical technologies, and capitalism’s encroachment on life. Drawing on the vernacular of social media marketing, they deftly oscillate between instructive and personal registers, stretching the private across a nexus of microbial interminglings. Strange Biology reflects on the semiotic science of the gut: how the language of medicine defines the mutating edges of the human body.
About the author
Charlotte Strange is a writer and editor concerned with media art, technology, sense, and sensitivity. They work across fiction, essays, and art writing. They are also the Public Engagement and Development Coordinator at Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), where they have organized public programs around disability justice, accessible media stewardship, and choreographic experimentation in relation to video art. Strange earned a BA in Sociology and Critical Theory from Wesleyan University and is an MA candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center, where they study contemporary art history and computational humanities.
Praise
Exploding how medicine “languages” the body as a kind of warfare, Strange Biology makes vivid language into literal, new shapes for living in intimate relation with microbiota, toilets, medical bureaucracy, and debt: essential reading for Virgos, girls (and non-girls) with IBS, and all other gut readers.
—Jordan Lord