antibody

Auteur
REBECCA SALAZAR (she/they) is a queer, disabled, and racialized Latinx writer currently living on the unceded territory of the Wolastoqiyik people. Their first full-length collection sulphurtongue (McClelland & Stewart) was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Poetry, the New Brunswick Book Awards, the Atlantic Book Awards, and the League of Canadian Poets’ Pat Lowther Memorial Award.

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A powerful follow-up to the Governor General’s Literary Award shortlisted sulphurtongue.

antibody mobilizes body horror as resistance, refusing to sanitize the atrocities of sexual violence or to silence its survivors. Challenging myths of “perfect” victimhood, this collection honours the messy, rageful, queer, witchy, disabled, and kinky grief work of enduring trauma and learning to want to survive.

The speakers in these poems reclaim the horrors they survive as weapons against those who would erase them:
if we must be unnatural
unliving monstrous
let us feed.

antibody is a protest, a whisper network, a reclamation of agency, and a ritual for building a survivable world.