Abstract

Finding Myself Inside Out follows a Black nonbinary person pursuing personal peace instead of conformity during their healing emergence. The liminality of medical transition heightens the contrast between submissions to cultural norms and embodied liberatory transgressions. Family is a cornerstone for interpersonal sense-making, and for that reason challenging conventional ideas of gender can be isolating. These poems capture the growing pains of taking on a new political identity and the phases of presenting a redefined self to kinfolk.

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