“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