Drawing on refugee studies, “Picturing Katrina: The Queer Child and Black Death-Birthing Narratives” explores the transient performance of antiblack and refugee policies and procedures and how this transmutation manifested around Hurricane Katrina. The article focuses on Beasts of the Southern Wild, which is an allegory of Hurricane Katrina, and its black death-birthing narrative—Beasts calls upon a black girl to produce an imagined future grounded in the reproduction of a structure hostile to black life. By positing her as harbinger of a more sustainable ecological future, Beasts’ black death-birthing narrative queers Hushpuppy, a 6-year old living in intense poverty. This article focuses on Beasts to explore the relationship among the watery deaths and depths of Hurricane Katrina, refugee policies, and transatlantic slavery. The article closes with a brief turn to a “real-life” black death-birthing narrative featured in People magazine in order to not only to suggest the breadth of media forms that utilize black death-birthing narratives centering on childhood and disaster, but also to begin to interrogate the material conditions that enable the proliferation of these narratives as well as the narratives’ material effects.

在难民研究的基础上，“《卡特里娜飓风：酷儿与黑人死亡的诞生》叙事”探讨了反黑人和难民政策与程序的短暂表现，以及这种trans变在卡特里娜飓风周围的表现方式。本文着重介绍卡特里娜飓风的寓言《南方野兽》及其黑人死亡叙事-野兽呼吁黑人女孩创造一个假想的未来，其基础是对黑人生命的敌对生活。通过将她视为更可持续的生态未来的预兆，野兽的黑人死产叙事使6岁的Hushpuppy陷入了极端贫困。本文重点介绍野兽探索水灾和卡特里娜飓风的深度与深度，难民政策和跨大西洋奴隶制之间的关系。本文以“人物”杂志上的“现实生活中的黑人死刑叙述”为结尾，以期不仅建议使用以童年和灾难为中心的黑人死刑叙述的媒体形式的广泛性，而且还开始审讯使这些叙事得以扩散以及叙事的物质效果得以实现的物质条件。