Beyond the cliches: how the trans poetry community is finding its voice

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Beyond the cliches: how the trans poetry community is finding its voice

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/nov/25/trans-poetry-community-literature-writers

The Guardian
Cat Fitzpatrick
November 25, 2015

A community of writers are expressing themselves for one another – and the medium they're using is poetry, in which it's 'easier to say things that haven't been put into words before.

For a long time, trans writing meant memoir. From Christine Jorgensen to Janet Mock, the most celebrated trans writers (or more to the point, the only ones who could get published) were those prepared to tell the story of their "transformations" in apparently truthful ways for consumption by a largely cisgender audience.

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