|
11/30/2022 0 Comments the kinsey scale
0 Comments
11/30/2022 0 Comments as the sun // jude & the witch11/30/2022 0 Comments mountains11/30/2022 0 Comments SALEMKatie Watson (she/her)Any variation from Puritan and Village expectations, particularly mental illness and abnormal social behavior, was understood to be the Devil’s influence.
11/1/2022 0 Comments The Door Is Not ClosedElessar Younglove (they/she/fae)You are their world
Slowly they blink into yours You show them a myriad of colors You find safety in repetition But they are growing up Changing from silk to spider webs And soon your name will not be the first On their lips 11/1/2022 0 Comments "Loveless"? More Like, Love This!Grey Weinstein (he/they)This summer, I buckled in to work my way through a daunting reading list of political theory as research for my senior thesis. And then… I didn’t. In my defense, I was living just a few blocks from my local library, which was well stocked with much of the trans literature I’d been longing to read over the school year but simply hadn’t had the time for. So, in lieu of presenting my thesis advisor with a well-researched literature review, I am instead publishing this piece: a comprehensive review of all the queer books I read for enjoyment.
It should be noted that this article is not at all topical; many of these books came out years ago, and I am admittedly quite late to the game. It could also certainly be argued that several of these books are so vastly different from one another in genre that they have no business being compared to each other. To that I offer this counterpoint: reviewing these books is fun and I’m having a good time. With the exception of the lowest-ranked book, I greatly enjoyed each and every one of these works, and would unhesitatingly recommend them to anyone looking for an enjoyable read! 5/3/2022 0 Comments State Surveillance, Carceral Cis-stems: Systemic Transmisogyny in the Poetry of Torrin A. GreathouseGrey Weinstein (he/they) The marginalization of trans women on a societal level is often best told through narratives of abuse. Poet Torrin A. Greathouse is no stranger to such abuse; her wide body of work explores the trauma of verbal and physical assault she experienced at the hands of her father as a child, at the hands of strangers as a sex worker, and at the hands of police as a trans adult. Greathouse’s debut poetry collection “Wound from the Mouth of a Wound” combines an exploration of this personal trauma with astute structural analysis of the ways in which transphobia and ableism function on a societal level. In “On Confinement,” “When My Gender is First Named Disorder,” and “I Was Looking for Dick & All I Got Was This Lousy Poem” Torrin A. Greathouse uses the metaphor of the panopticon to argue that both the prison industrial complex and medical institutions monitor gender variant people through state surveillance. Greathouse demonstrates that this surveillance forces trans women to police their own self expression; she compares how this systemic transphobia and interpersonal acts of transphobia both dehumanize trans women in order to justify their continued subjugation.
Grey Weinstein (he/they) Transgender people face widespread violence from a variety of sources, from interpersonal acts of brutality to structural violence that denies them housing, healthcare, and employment at every turn. Trans women, especially trans women of color, are particularly vulnerable to this violence. How to capture and make sense of this violence– without romanticizing it or painting trans people as helpless victims– is central to the work of transgender poet Joshua Jennifer Espinoza. In the three poems “The Moon is Trans,” “A Guide to Reading Trans Literature (For Cis People),” and “Who She Was,” Joshua Jennifer Espinoza uses tone and imagery to argue that ever-present violence is used to control transgender women. However, even as cis people coopt this violence to ease their own guilt, trans women’s continued survival and resistance remains a source of hope for Espinoza.
|
Categories |
Search by typing & pressing enter
