My Body Lives Like a Threat

<p>My Body Lives Like a Threat is a deep exposition of gender and color-based discrimination sexual and reproductive rights violations body politics immigration and the impact of a toxic political environment on the country and its people. The full length has been divided into five sections namely Black Truth War and Peace My Body is Not an Apology A Just Immigration Policy and My Body Lives Like a Threat that deals with the poems reflecting the blatant violation of human rights and the systemic oppression of the people of color in this country and around the world. The book reflects how body politics never remains at an individual level but molds and morphs into a social monster birthing problem like human rights violation immigration gun violence and racial discrimination. This collection is not only a reflection of individual rights violations but also addresses the human rights violation in today's toxic political environment as a whole. This book highlights my journey gives it a voice and strengthens the fact that how the body is so central as a whole yet it remains invisible and still acts as a threat.</p>