There Are Trans People Here

ISBN-13: 9781642595727

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Haymarket Books

Publication Date: 11-16-2021

Pages: 100

Product Dimensions: 5.80(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.30(d)

Series: Breakbeat Poets

H. Melt is a poet, artist and educator who celebrates trans liberation. They are the author of The Plural, The Blurring and editor of Subject to Change: Trans Poetry & Conversation. Lambda Literary awarded them the Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging LGBTQ Writers.

Table of Contents

There Are Trans People Here 1

On My Way to Liberation 3

All the Missing Sweetness 4

Dysphoria is Not My Name 5

Trans Care 6

To Sylvie, To Frank 8

At The Chicago Marathon 10

Intensive Care 11

Giovanni's Room 12

If You Are Over CIS People 14

Faggot with Flowers 15

To All Those Listening 17

At The Dream Job 19

ODE to TERFS 20

Meeting Chelsea Manning 21

Trans Lit 23

City of Trans Liberation 26

On Trans Street 28

Trans House 30

Take Me to the Trans Spa 31

Camp Trans 33

Trans Museum 35

Every Day is a Trans Day 38

Trans Day of Revenge 39

I Don't want a Trans President 40

Trans People against Bans, Walls & Borders 41

& Again & Again 43

The Most Dangerous Jew in Germany 44

Trans Temple 48

Prayer for My Trans Siblings 49

The Riots Must Continue 51

Afterword 52

Study Guide 55

Notes 63

Acknowledgments 64

Gratitude 65