Consider the Rooster New York Launch

“This visionary book of queer ecological thought asks: how can we make a home when home is a harm? In the face of colonialism, capitalism, transphobia, and other intransigent systems of violence, Bendorf embraces transience and transition as forms of resistance.” —Brian Teare

Amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic, the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder by police, and the resulting upsurge in reactionary right-wing militia violence, a neighbor in Kalamazoo, Michigan threatens to call the police after discovering the author’s pet rooster. The rooster sounds the alarm and our author wakes to revolutionary transformation. An ecological consciousness embedded in these verses invites readers to acknowledge their place in a web of relations. Oliver Baez Bendorf’s voice resounds through liminal spaces, at dusk and dawn, across personal meditations and wider cultural awakenings to form a collection overflowing with freedom, rebellion, mischief, and song.