D I Y Body

In D I Y BODY, Toni Garcia-Butler crafts a vibrant, defi ant exploration of identity, inheritance, and self-making at the intersections of Black, Filipino, Southern, and trans/queer experience. Through poems that move between memory, performance, and everyday ritual, Garcia-Butler builds a body not given, but claimed piece by piece, voice by voice. These poems are alive with sound and movement: karaoke bars become sites of transformation, kitchens hold the ghosts of lineage and love, and mosh pits offer fleeting freedom from misrecognition. This chapbook is a proclamation of naming, desire, family, and belonging, an insistence on the right to define the self beyond expectation or constraint.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Sibling Rivalry Press, LLC
Published: 06/23/2026
ISBN: 9781943977970
Pages: 36
Weight: 0.14lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.09d