Jamie Berrout

"...poems that arose from my feelings about intimacy and romance as a trans woman of color in a nascent relationship whose previous experiences of desire consist largely of longing for safety, struggling to survive, wanting to feel welcome, and working to attain these necessities for other trans women." -- Author's website

Desire and the Scent of Guava

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Portland Diary is a collection of short stories about women faced with impossible situations. Each of the seven narratives unfolds its heightened, speculative version of the everyday reality we find ourselves in as racialized people, queer and colonial and mentally ill subjects, enemies or collaborators to the bloodthirsty Western imperial machine, disposable labor for a capitalist system that threatens to devour the world. In "Mansion," the story that opens the book, an unpaid intern falls into a nightmare after realizing how little she's worth to the local HRC-esque nonprofit she's been sacrificing herself for. And the book progresses through dystopian futures, ecastatic visions of liberation, narrow escapes, and betrayals until the last story, "Waiting Room," where a trans woman and an android woman form a bond while waiting for the surgery consults that promise to bring them a measure of freedom.

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