In her debut chapbook, Shandelle offers a raw and resonant collection of poems that center queer, lesbian identity with unflinching honesty. These verses navigate the tangled terrain of coming out, heartbreak, rejection, and the quiet—and not so quiet—ways queer people are forced to fight for space, safety, and selfhood. With lyricism and rage, tenderness and truth, this collection speaks to anyone who has ever had to reclaim their voice in the face of silence.
This is poetry as resistance.
This is poetry as survival.
