antibody by Rebecca Salazar
Canadian | CBC Books | Posted: April 8, 2025 3:35 PM | Last Updated: April 8
A follow-up to the Governor General’s Literary Award shortlisted sulphurtongue.
antibody is a protest, a whisper network, a reclamation of agency, and a ritual for building a survivable world.
antibody mobilizes body horror as resistance, refusing to sanitize the atrocities of sexual violence or to silence its survivors. Challenging myths of "perfect" victimhood, this collection honours the messy, rageful, queer, witchy, disabled, and kinky grief work of enduring trauma and learning to want to live. (From McClelland & Stewart)
antibody mobilizes body horror as resistance, refusing to sanitize the atrocities of sexual violence or to silence its survivors. Challenging myths of "perfect" victimhood, this collection honours the messy, rageful, queer, witchy, disabled, and kinky grief work of enduring trauma and learning to want to live. (From McClelland & Stewart)
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Rebecca Salazar is a writer, editor and community organizer from New Brunswick. They edit the publications The Fiddlehead and Plenitude. Salazar's poetry collection Sulphurtongue was on the shortlist for the 2021 Governor General's Literary Award for poetry.