There Are Trans People Here

by H. Melt

Overview

There are trans people here in the past, the present, and the future. H. Melt’s writing centers the deep care, love, and joy within trans communities. This poetry collection describes moments of resistance in queer and trans history as catalysts for movements today. It honors trans ancestors and contemporary activists, artists, and writers fighting for trans liberation. There Are Trans People Here is a testament to the healing power of community and the beauty of trans people, history, and culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781642595727
Publisher:	Haymarket Books
Publication date:	11/16/2021
Series:	Breakbeat Poets
Pages:	100
Sales rank:	1,076,408
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

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

Editorial Reviews

H. Melt’s matter-of-fact, precise, cartographic poems perform necessary care work for the trans people and places they attend to and yearn toward. Deeply grounded in the plain, bountiful fact of trans worlds—and insisting on our worlds to come—this book offers all who need it a map to a world ‘forever in bloom.’”
—Cameron Awkward-Rich, author of Dispatch

“There Are Trans People Here is an ode to trans joy, resilience, and communal care. A trans-utopian manifesto for a world that ‘let[s] us be beautiful / on our own terms.’ Melt’s verse is bold, stark, and uncompromising. Threading elements of familial narrative, memoir, and queer history, they trace through-lines from our past to a brighter, queerer future.”
—torrin a. greathouse, author of Wound From The Mouth Of A Wound

“These poems meld individual resilience with collective resistance to illuminate the everyday beauty of trans lives in refusing the lure of conditional inclusion to instead challenge dominant institutions of oppression, demand structural change, and remake the world.”
—Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, author of The Freezer Door

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