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June 17, 2022 

Mentally missturbed
Ava Hofmann

Copyright © 2022 by Ava Hofmann. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on June 17, 2022, by the Academy of American Poets.

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“This poem came about, in large part, due to my frustration with the rhetoric surrounding this present wave of legislation designed to target transgender people. The cultural imagery that surrounds trans womanhood is so disconnected from my everyday life, and what it means for someone like me to navigate the world, that it feels like something entirely separate from my identity—yet, it is something that identifies itself as me. This poem is a product of my attempt to identify with the way in which a transphobic culture misidentifies me and so many other transgender people.”
—Ava Hofmann
Ava Hofmann is a trans woman poet and the author of love poems / smallness studies (Inside the Castle, 2022), among other titles. Originally from Oxford, Ohio, she currently lives in Baton Rouge.
love poems / smallness studies
(Inside the Castle, 2022)


 

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