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letsgolesbians's review
emotional
hopeful
reflective
5.0
there are trans people here by h. melt is a collection of poetry primarily focusing on trans joy and trans futures, two aspects of trans life that are often overshadowed by trans pain and death. i’ve included two poems i really appreciated for their perception of liberation and freedom.
a few days ago jamesissmiling asked us to think about how we were complicit in nex benedict’s murder. i have not been paying close attention to all of the bills and resolutions in the us because i’ve been hyper-focused on palestine, even though they are connected and i have the capacity to care about both. my memory isn’t great and i have a ton of blank notebooks, so i’m going to start keeping a record of the bullshit laws our governments are trying to pass, including anti-trans legislation. i also have a high capacity for letter writing and as i continue to write to my reps about palestine, i will also start writing to them about trans issues (if anyone has extra stamps or envelopes, send them my way).
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stevia333k's review
fast-paced
4.5
So this is a preview of "there are trans people here", so IDK how to rate these 2 books separately, but i will say the preview is way more dysphoric than the full-length.
so this full length one where a lot of the increase in hope seems to make a lot of ideas of a t4t city as imagery. i don't think i can say outloud an encounter i had while reading one of the poems in this book, but there was a connection made that made me think i need to recontextualize some things that i thought of during my life.
so while it's beautiful in the sense of black lives matter statue art replacing colonizer statue art, i guess my mind went to: whose going to police the gender to make sure everyone is trans in a certain space? practically, it can go wrong very quickly, as the book "abolition feminism now" warns against.
anyways, the author's from chicagoland so i probably can get less alienated from the context of this imagery.
so this full length one where a lot of the increase in hope seems to make a lot of ideas of a t4t city as imagery. i don't think i can say outloud an encounter i had while reading one of the poems in this book, but there was a connection made that made me think i need to recontextualize some things that i thought of during my life.
so while it's beautiful in the sense of black lives matter statue art replacing colonizer statue art, i guess my mind went to: whose going to police the gender to make sure everyone is trans in a certain space? practically, it can go wrong very quickly, as the book "abolition feminism now" warns against.
anyways, the author's from chicagoland so i probably can get less alienated from the context of this imagery.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Hate crime, Transphobia, Deadnaming, and Sexual violence