The Endurance of the Mare

The Endurance of the Mare, volume 1, explores the complex histories of belonging and displacement within the Eastern Borderlands of Gender and Europe. Alyosxa Tudor examines how family archives reflect the lasting impacts of classed, sexual, state, and border violence. Through the life of Pena, a migrant worker moving between the Russian Empire and Romania, this history book traces how hunger, migration, and trauma travel across generations and national spaces.

This academic work utilizes auto-theory and historical materialist analysis to investigate the legacies of systemic violence. The Endurance of the Mare connects historical struggles in Eastern Europe to contemporary feminist, queer, and anti-racist movements in regions like Palestine. By analyzing how intergenerational trauma shapes nationalisms, the text offers a profound intervention into transnational histories and memory discourse. It provides a rigorous study of political responsibility and the ways past violence informs the present.