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let me tell you
how to lean gently on
one another without
rocking sideways.
Rae White’s compelling second poetry collection Exactly As I Am rises from their lived experience as a non-binary transgender person. Their gloriously defiant, unruly poems dissect and scrutinise the spaces transgender people are both assigned and denied in society, through unflinching explorations of gender identity, gender discrimination and gender euphoria. These bracing poems lean towards you, hold out their hand and offer you: a connection, a community, an emboldened call to action.
Author: Rae White
Paperback Published 5 July 2022 136 pages
‘An electric collection that weaves a defiant dance over the cruelties of capitalism, heteronormativity and the gender binary. White’s words sizzle with wit and biting intelligence.’ - Yves Reese
‘Exactly As I Am conjures an unapologetic and startlingly vulnerable vision of a collective queer future. In these poems, past selves echo into the present, where the physicality of the non-binary body reaches out through the text to ask, “Am I trope or trouble to you?”’ - Rebecca Jessen