An Erasure of Senate Bill 1698 (2)
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Credit
Copyright © 2023 by Moncho Alvarado. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on October 25, 2023, by the Academy of American Poets.
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
Date Published
10/25/2023