On Twitter, they post selfies, offer takes on RuPaul’s Drag Race, lift up the work of other black writers, and rebuke white supremacy and transmisogyny.ĭodd’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Guernica, the Nashville Review, Teen Vogue, Winter Tangerine, and elsewhere. In their sonically attuned and formally rigorous poetry, dodd navigates the conditions of the poem’s construction - “every poem is a death & each stanza an economy / built on an ocean floor covered in bones,” they write in “ars poetica” - while documenting the pleasures, violences, foreclosures, and possibilities of their own black trans femme presence. THE TWITTER BIO for jay dodd begins: “jayy dodd is a blxk question mark from los angeles, California - now based on the internet.” On the internet, they tweet is a writer and editor uninterested in boundaries charted by the white literary establishment.
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