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Eileen Myles & Trans Poetry - Episode 3


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Content warning: this podcast discusses trans issues, with mentions of trans violence and transphobia.
(There are further content warnings in the episode itself.)
This episode brings you a rattlebag of poems from trans poets! Opening with a discussion of the Netflix documentary Disclosure (2020), Free Vers(e) looks at some of the most exciting trans and nonbinary poets writing today.
(There was so much to discuss, we'll be releasing a further bonus episode with even more poets...)
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Links --
Travis Alabanza, We Know Visibility Well:
https://www.qxmagazine.com/2019/03/we-know-visibility-well/
Danez Smith on Poets.org:
https://poets.org/poems/danez-smith
Eileen Myles, An American Poem: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53965/an-american-poem
The webcomic Eadaoin and Annie mention is, of course, Check, Please!: https://www.checkpleasecomic.com/
The thread Annie mentions is *not* about Star Trek, but Marvel(!), and is on Robin Stevens' Twitter here: https://twitter.com/redbreastedbird/status/1274681395881877506?s=20
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