We Want It All Quotes

“We don't hold that poetry is a form of, or replaces, political action. Poetry isn't revolutionary practice; poetry provides a way to inhabit revolutionary practice, to ground ourselves in our relations to ourselves and each other, to think about an unevenly miserable world and to spit in its face. We believe that poetry can do things that theory can't, that poetry leaps into what theory tends towards. We think that poetry conjoins and extends the interventions that trans people make into our lives and bodily presence in the world, which always have an aesthetic dimension. We assert that poetry should be an activity by and for everybody.”
― Andrea Abi-Karam, We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics

“We're writing at a juncture of crisis - of longstanding roots and rapid progression, deeply embedded in economy and ecology and palpably felt at the level of everyday life.”
― Andrea Abi-Karam, We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics