Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch

Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Middle Eastern Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Disability Studies. Bringing together poetry, essay, and letters to "lovers, friends and in-betweens," Eli Tareq Bechelany-Lynch confronts the ways capitalism, fatphobia, ableism, transness, and racializations affect people with chronic pain, illness, and disability. KNOT BODY explores what it means to discover the limits of your body, and contends with what those limitations bring up in the world we live in.

Knot Body

Swinging from post-explosion Beirut to a Parc-Extension balcony in summer, the verse and prose poems in The Good Arabs ground the reader in place, language, and the body. Peeling and rinsing radishes. Dancing as a pre-teen to Nancy Ajram. Being drenched in stares on the city bus. The collection is an interlocking and rich offering of the speaker's geographical surroundings both expansive and precise, family both biological and chosen, and community. In mapping Arab and trans identity through the remnants of trauma, the garbage crisis in Lebanon, the ways countries let down their citizens, and the immensity of experience felt in one body, the genre-defying collection The Good Arabs gifts the reader with insight into cycles and repetition in ourselves and our broken nations. Ultimately, it shows how we might love amid dismay, adore the pungent and the ugly, and exist in our multiplicity across spaces.

The Good Arabs

Samia Marshy

A Queer and Trans Collection of Oddities

El Ghourabaa

Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay

Dandelion Daughter

Heather O'Neill

Martina Chumova

Simon Boulerice

Lili Boisvert

Mikella Nicol

Véronique Grenier

Ariane Lessard

Stéphanie Boulay

Martine Delvaux

Roseline Lambert

Patrick Watson

Jolène Ruest

Rose-Aimée Automne T. Morin

Coco Belliveau

Stella Adjokê

Léa Stréliski

Mélodie Nelson

une œuvre collective

Ce qu'un jeune mari devrait savoir

Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch

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