Exactly as I Am
Exactly As I Am by Rae White is a poetry collection published by University of Queensland Press in 2022. This edition, comprising 96 pages, presents a series of poems that reflect the author’s lived experience as a non-binary transgender individual. The work delves into themes of gender identity, discrimination, and euphoria, offering readers a glimpse into the complexities of navigating societal spaces.
In this collection, Rae White’s poems invite readers to engage with the nuances of connection and community. The verses explore how to support one another without losing balance, emphasizing the importance of solidarity in the face of challenges. Through their defiant and unruly style, White’s work serves as both a personal narrative and a broader commentary on LGBTQ experiences, making it a significant contribution to contemporary poetry.
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let me tell you
how to lean gently on
one another without
rocking sideways.
Rae White’s much-anticipated second poetry collection, Exactly As I Am, speaks to their lived experience as a non-binary transgender person. Their defiant, unruly poems interrogate the spaces transgender people are both assigned and denied in society, through unflinching explorations of gender identity, gender discrimination and gender euphoria. These poems lean against you, hold out their hand and offer you- a connection, a community, a call to action.
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