The Great Good Time

<p>From the author of the Lambda Literary award-winning roman a clef <em>Tiny Piece of Skull</em> also available from Team Angelica Publishing this chapbook is a passionate collection of highly personal poems by trans elder Roz Kaveney most of them written in the white heat of the current moment of marked anti-trans hostility; others to mark Trans Day of Remembrance.</p><p><br></p><p>From the foreword: <span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In the autumn of 2021 well into the second year of Covid-19 and the start of the fifth year of the War On Trans I noticed a lot of bleakness creeping into trans social media and thought it my job as a community elder to remind young people that things have been if not worse at least as bad in different ways.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Back in the late '70s when I transitioned I acquired as my peer group a bunch of slightly younger trans women who I met around Soho and for a short while became their landlady bail person and wailing wall. I had middle class and educational privilege they didn't - I hope I used it for the greater good. It was - as much as my time in Chicago - the making of me.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>It taught me a lot about solidarity.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>And then we all moved on. Some of them died: some of them are still alive. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The important thing about life in an embattled community is to have each other's backs.</span></p>