D I Y Body LGBTQ+ and prosperity

and prosperity

threshing oats

When she uncovers a long-hidden secret about Iris's family in the underbelly of the theater--a story of heaving passion and loss

This book provides a vision for how social justice movements can become sharper and more effective through principled struggle

D I Y Body LGBTQ+ and prosperityIn D I Y BODY, Toni Garcia Butler crafts a vibrant, defi ant exploration of identity, inheritance, and self making at the intersections of Black, Filipino, southern, and Trans queer experience. Through poems that move between memory, performance, and everyday ritual, Garcia Butler builds a body not given, but claimed piece by piece, voice by voice. These poems are alive with sound and movement: karaoke bars become sites of transformation, kitchens