Foreword: on gesture - Anne BoyerIntroduction: writing gesture - Alice Butler, Nell Osborne, and Hilary White Part I: Scrawl 1 The intelligent hand - Natalie Ferris2 Without word without voice blind gesture - Kim Dhillon 3 'Language, of course, being gesture': experiments in/of the archive - Hannah Van Hove4 Writing dreaming drawing: the ungraspable work of Renee Gladman - Hilary White Part II: Caress 5 Perversions at her adolescent fingertips, or, Francesca Woodman's autoerotic attentions: an essay-caress - Alice Butler6 The massage is the medium - Joanna Walsh7 Et in arcadia xerox: the work of Pati Hill - Luke Roberts Part III: Mutter 8 My chimeras - Daniela Cascella 9 Speaking silence - Emma Bolland 10 Mamaiaith: poetics in commotion - Nia Davies 11 Cliché is the sediment of sentiment that collects in my ear - Daisy Lafarge12 'The strength of the gesture to move like a poem': Layli Long Soldier's poetics of relationality - Catherine Gander Part IV: Scratch 13 My skin is a riot: critical and embodied writing about living in co-occupation with a chronic health condition - Maria Fusco14 Cutting into unmarked pleasures - Fatema Abdoolcarim 15 Learning from silent teachers: on researching at a teaching mortuary - Naomi Pearce 16 Returning to the scene of hurt: violent repetition and disturbance in Anna Kavan's Ice - Nell Osborne Part V: Reach 17 Gestures for feminist transmissions: Le Nemesiache's psycho-fable - Giulia Damiani18 Between the departures and arrivals: embodied experience, photography, and writing - Azadeh Fatehrad 19 Feminism's un/common rituals: Ana Mendieta's affective afterlife - Hatty Nestor 20 'I want a literature that is not made from literature': on the gesture-text of Bhanu Kapil's Ban en Banlieue - Joey Frances Part VI: Dialogues on gesture 21 'Flight [Gestures] in a Galaxy of Centres': a correspondence - Nisha Ramayya and Nat Raha 22 So many social things happen with a bent head: reading, writing, scrolling on phones, eating at tables or from laps, drawing or making with hands, masturbating - Alison Ballance, Carl Gent, and Jessa Mockridge 23 In excess of the one, two - Erin Manning and Jade de Montserrat 24 Gesture, a build - Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart Afterword - Kaye Mitchell Index 322.