Tranny Muse

Tranny Muse is a poetry collection that interrogates personal, historical, and socio-cultural genealogies, functioning as both a record and an archive. As the speaker of these poems, I explore my life thus far: from growing up Mormon and coming out as gay and trans/nonbinary to performing in drag and finding new forms for home and community. The collection, organized by books of prose and lineated poems, enacts yet queers traditional genre conventions by transgressing their boundaries as I wrestle with finding form for desire, ethics, trauma, and dis/eu-phoria.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Fine Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Creative Writing

Department dc:contributor.department

English

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

2022

Author dc:creator

• Portela, Taylor Bruce

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Smith, Carmen Gimenez

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Lavender-Smith, Evan
• Meitner, Erika S.

• poetry
• LGBTQ studies
• trans studies
• gender
• sexuality
• desire
• genealogy
• religion
• philosophy
• childhood
• adolescence
• adulthood
• illness
• grief
• trauma
• love
• drag
• Radical Faeries

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en

Dc Identifier Other

vt_gsexam:34522

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/110121