Feelings Soup welcomes KB Brookins, a Black trans poet and cultural worker. In this conversation, we explore navigating conflict, writing poetry, how to feel at home in states targeting trans people, how writing changes over time, and learn more about KB’s upcoming books Freedom House and PRETTY.
KB Brookins is a writer, cultural worker, and artist from Texas. They are the author of How To Identify Yourself with a Wound (Kallisto Gaia Press 2022) and Freedom House (Deep Vellum 2023). KB is a 2023 National Endowment of the Arts fellow. Follow them online at @earthtokb.
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