I Don't Want To Be Understood (eBook)

Joshua Jennifer Espinoza (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
121 Seiten
Alice James Books (Verlag)
978-1-949944-35-8 (ISBN)

Infos

A transsexual woman pieces together fragmented details of a repressive religious childhood and an unsupportive family, drawing from autobiographical experiences of the poets life.I Dont Want To Be Understood is a work of resistance against the conventional trans narrative, and a resistance against the idea that trans people should have to make themselves clear and understandable to others in other to deserve human rights. This is a compelling, urgent collection about the body and survival that asks how we learn to love in a culture where normal is defined by exclusion and discrimination. These poems stretch from childhood to the present dayresisting typical narratives of self-discovery, resilience, and personal growthand instead asks what it means to be granted or denied personhood by the world around you. It is a personal archive of a trans life laid out in all its messiness and unknowability, and is a book for anyone who has questioned why we place so many limitations on who gets to be considered a human being. These poems do not celebrate survival, but rather ask why transsexuals and other gender non-conforming people must fight so hard to survive in the first place.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik
• Schlagworte: air travel • California • clouds • Disembodiment • Family • Flowers • GRASS • LGBTQIA • nature poems • trans poetry • trans woman • Trees
• ISBN-10: 1-949944-35-2 / 1949944352
• ISBN-13: 978-1-949944-35-8 / 9781949944358