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An Erasure of Senate Bill 1698 (2)

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Moncho Alvarado
An Erasure of Senate Bill 1698 (2)

 

Copyright © 2023 by Moncho Alvarado. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on October 25, 2023, by the Academy of American Poets. 

Moncho Alvarado
Photo credit: Oscar Ochoa
Moncho Alvarado is the author of Greyhound Americans (Saturnalia Books, 2022).

About Moncho Alvarado

Themes
America
Audio
Gender
LGBTQ
Politics
Social Justice
Form
Erasure
About this Poem

“I have been writing this series of poems as a reaction to the more than five hundred anti-trans bills that have been introduced as legislation all over the United States in 2023 alone. I am sick and tired of the policing of our bodies, our lives, and our freedoms with such hateful language. I choose the erasure form to write a series of healing poems that transform the bills into spaces of reclamation, of hope, of taking our lives, bodies, and freedoms back.”
—Moncho Alvarado

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