Reclaiming Selfhood: Transfeminine Identity in the Poetry of Justice Ameer and Golden.
Despite increased visibility of trans identities in contemporary US discourse, Black transfeminine individuals remain subjected to systemic violence, societal misrecognition, and cultural erasure, exacerbated by the fraught political climate under administrations that alternately advance and restric...
| Publicado en: | Comparative American Studies Vol. 22; no. 3; pp. 184 - 198 |
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