“I know sex work to be work. It’s not something I need to tiptoe around. It’s not a radical statement. It’s a fact.” This is what Janet Mock wrote in response to her speech at the 2017 Women’s March on Washington. When Mock was brought on board to assist in the planning of the event, […]
Trans Poetry: Creating Spaces, Telling Stories
April 19, 2018 by · Leave a Comment
Note: We are two cisgender writers conveying our understandings of these poems, and in no way mean to misrepresent the poets’ intentions or extrapolate about their lives. “We need poetry when literal faces and bodies and circumstances are not as good as it gets: we might enjoy reading and writing poetry for many reasons, but […]