day/break queer studies Style is not just the

Style is not just the clothes on our backs—it is self-expression

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They give readers a splendid gift: the gift of touching another human being’s inner reality

They bring us generously into experiences that we must understand if we are to come together in real relationships

Beautifully bound in stamped linen cloth with a deckled edge

day/break queer studies Style is not just theday break, Governor General's Literary Award Winner Gwen Benaway's fourth collection of work, explores the everyday poetics of the trans feminine body. Through intimate experiences and conceptualizations of trans life, day break asks what it means to be a trans woman, both within the text and out in the physical world. Shifting between theory and poetry, Benaway questions how gender, sexuality, and love intersect with the violence and transmisogyny of