Shapeshifters Jenna Lyn Albert too real to be relegated

too real to be relegated to a bookshelf

where Aaron—who has repeatedly been denied appropriate gender-affirming medical care from the mainstream system—undergoes a near-fatal procedure performed by an unqualified and eccentric recluse who lives on the outskirts of Saltus

Subtle and sly in their connections

[Forage] posits the praxis of poetry -- its attention to alliterations and allusions and parallelism and pastiche -- amidst larger global conversations on the cultural

Wong looks at the clash of cultures: national

Shapeshifters Jenna Lyn Albert too real to be relegatedDescription In Shapeshifters, Dlani Valin explores the cost of finding the perfect mask. Through a lens of urban Mtis experience and neurodivergence, Valin takes on a series of personas as an act of empathy as resistance. Some personas are capitalist mascots like the Starbucks siren, Barbie and the Michelin Man, who confide the hopes and frustrations that lay hidden behind their relentless public enthusiasm. Others include psychiatric diagnoses like