Trish Salah

Jun 26, 2024 | poets.org | Trish Salah |Camille Rankine |George Abraham

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Aug 2, 2023 | velamag.com | Trish Salah

How can I begin to talk about exceptional writing by trans women authors when, to a certain degree, any trans woman’s published work is exceptional inasmuch as it has somehow made its way into existence? In the hands of cis authors, trans people’s lives and identities are so routinely erased, stereotyped or idealized that publication at all might be considered both a political and a literary achievement, one that revises our imaginations simply by representing that which is otherwise barred.