Mientras quede agua / As long as there is water - Myr Olivares

Today we are living a climate apocalypse and the increasing precariousness of the ecosystem composed of transgender communities. The U.S. government denies and attempts to erase the existence of gender non-conforming people, while settler colonialism turns the beaches and mangroves of Puerto Rico into a sandbox for tourists and the ultra-rich. In this scenario, poetic language does not offer us solutions, but rather its shinny scales. For Olivares, the act of naming(oneself), begins as a rearticulation of embellishment, no longer a decorative gesture, but now aesthetic-political potential. Here, poetry operates as an equalizing force, giving us back the beauty that the world had snatched away. Its force