Day/Break Drag Although Akane is often her

Although Akane is often her own worst critic

during the heart of World War II

What happens when you teach chaos theory and life starts to mirror your lessons

Keep your enemy closer

The stories in these pages resist simple definitions

Day/Break Drag Although Akane is often herday break, poet 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 the nation state and established