When Sam put his hand on my shoulder as he was walking by, it was a kindness rarely offered between men. I know that now because now I'm a man. I needed his hand. Even if I am scared of being touched.
TC
Tolbert is
a genderqueer, feminist poet and teacher committed to social justice. TC is
Assistant Director of Casa Libre en la Solana, adjunct instructor at UA and
Pima Community College, and wilderness instructor at Outward Bound. Co-editor,
along with Tim Trace Peterson, of the forthcoming Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics
(Nightboat Books/EOAGH, March 2013), TC has two chapbooks: spirare (Belladonna* 2012) and territories
of folding (Kore Press 2011). His work won the Arizona Statewide Poetry
Competition in 2010 and his first full length collection, Gephyromania, is forthcoming from
Ahsahta Press. S/he is the creator of Made
for Flight, a youth empowerment project that utilizes creative
writing and kite building to commemorate murdered transgender people and to
dismantle homophobia and transphobia. www.tctolbert.com
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