My newest poem, Trans Rage 2: The Reckoning is available now over at Strange Horizons to read for free. Below is a link and an excerpt.
This was an exciting piece to see published because when I wrote it, I thought for sure it would have a hard time finding a home. Luckily the editors at SH liked it as much as I do. It was created in response to transgender depictions in horror media, which almost entirely relegate trans individuals to the role of sexually deviant killers, monsters, or disgusting stereotypes.
Excerpt:
What’s Your Favorite Scary Movie?
Psycho
Sleepaway Cam-
Silence of the L-
Always the slasher
and never the final girl.
Notes from
the severed
studio heads:
If she does survive,
she needs to be
legless or blind,
eyes gouged out
or wheelchair bound.
No trans heroes
can be whole.
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Read the rest at Strange Horizons:
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And while I have you here I’ll give a shout out to two great organizations that are currently fighting for Trans and queer rights:
Mack W. Mani 