the fold explores what it means for a trans ex-Mormon poet to become a speaking subject through the vocation of poetry. In part a result of a year-and-a-half-long itinerancy and a lack of risk aversion, the fold occupies the edge of risk and play where attachments to scarcity and survival narratives can be interrupted (through “self-interruption” per Lauren Berlant), discovering instead desire, love, and its forms. Movement as a process is an entry into performance and transformation. Through duration and performance, the body becomes both tool and method for trans subjectivity to become legible, while still maintaining Glissant’s claim that “din is discourse.” Through its serial work, the fold seeks to envision conditions for self-sovereignty, to experience this physically as a precarious body with other precarious bodies. Like pollinators moving from flower to flower, the movement of desire creates movement toward collective pleasure, the social and sensuous become the plane of ethical action. Through this activity, we create folds of meaning in our daily uncompensated labors, in every gesture and point of contact.
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