Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel will discuss their recent editorial project, We Want it All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (Nightboat Books, 2020) in relation to borders of embodiment. We Want it All collects works by intergenerational poets, writers, and activists to address trans relationships to desire, embodiment, housing, ecology, and history. Gabriel and Abi-Karam will reflect on how their editorial work approaches questions of trans embodiment within political and cultural discourses of bodies, and the borders created around collective versus personal identity.

Andrea Abi-Karam is an arab-american genderqueer punk poet-performer cyborg, writing on the art of killing bros, the intricacies of cyborg bodies, trauma and delayed healing. Selected by Bhanu Khapil, Andrea’s debut EXTRATRANSMISSION (Kelsey Street Press, 2019), is a poetic critique of the U.S. military’s role in the War on Terror. Simone White selected their second assemblage, Villainy, for publication in Fall 2021 at Nightboat Books. With Kay Gabriel, they co-edited We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (Nightboat Books, 2020). They are a rollerblading Leo currently obsessed with queer terror and convertibles.

Kay Gabriel is a poet and essayist. She lives in Queens, NY.

Organized by Liv Koreman.

This event is part of BORDER AS METHOD, a virtual, public-facing event series featuring artists, curators, activists, and scholars across the world focused on the making and unmaking of art under conditions of exile or forced migration, or from areas where travel is prohibited or difficult. Hosted by faculty from the Department of the Arts at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School. All events are free and open to the public, but prior registration is required.

This event is co-presented by and part of The New School's Gender & Sexualities Studies Institute's 2021 Gender Matters Symposium. Browse their events.

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