Saint Consequence explores gender transition, queerness, disease and disability, and the experiences of life in Russia and other former Soviet countries within the transgender, crip body.
Told through the lens of a transgender and disabled man who spent over a decade living in Siberia, Saint Consequence spans the author’s experiences undergoing gender transition, developing the autoimmune condition that left him chronically disabled, and subsequently re-learning how to walk. What does it mean to inhabit a body--and for that body to inhabit our beautiful, damaged, shared world?
Ever wary of the temptation "to make a career of pain," (Adrienne Rich), these poems emerge of a belief that the limits of our knowledge don’t merely constrain us; instead, they invite us to imagine our place in the world with greater nuance and generosity, and to reckon with the endless particularity of lives other than our own. The book is a chronicle of cross-cultural interactions and relationships, but above all, it is an account of how one person has come to terms with existing in a precarious body in the midst of our beautiful, precarious world.