Poems by Venus Selenite (Buy it here)“trigger is a bold, intimate, and comfortable/uncomfo
Poems by Venus Selenite (Buy it here)“trigger is a bold, intimate, and comfortable/uncomfortable quest, through Selenite’s eyes, in being Black, being queer, being trans, being a woman, and being non-binary in the 21st century, in what continues to be systemic and oppressive, but also adventurous and ecstatic.”About the author:Venus Selenite is a poet, writer, performance artist, social critic, and arts/sex educator from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, currently based in Washington, D.C. She is a Black, queer, non-binary trans woman.She has been honing her craft of performance and language for over ten years, beginning on Baton Rouge’s youth poetry circuit. Venus’s work centers experiences of intersectionality, identity, liberation, joy, and suffering, intending to uplift and control narratives of trans and queer people of color. In 2015, she worked for the National Center of Transgender Equality to perform outreach and communications for the U.S. Trans Survey.Venus is a contributor at BlaQueerFlow: The Griots’ Pen, a Life and Culture Contributor at The Tempest, and is the Trans Voices Columnist for Wear Your Voice Magazine. She is preparing to study for her B.A. in English at the University of Maryland UniversityCollege. trigger is her first book of poems. $15.99 - get it here: https://www.createspace.com/6215186 -- source link
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