Joshua Jennifer Espinoza

Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
Born (1987-12-17) December 17, 1987
Residence Riverside, California, US
Nationality American
Occupation Poet
Notable work

i'm alive / it hurts / i love it

THERE SHOULD BE FLOWERS
Website joshuajenniferespinoza.com

Joshua Jennifer Espinoza (born December 17, 1987)[1] is an American poet from Riverside, California.[2] On September 16, 2014, she published her first full-length poetry book, i'm alive / it hurts / i love it, with Boost House, a small Maine press. In this book, she covers topics like mental illness, coming out as a transgender woman, as well as more traditional subjects like love, anger, and beauty.[3] Espinoza is also known for her use of artistic image macros,[4] a form of art in which text is overlaid over an image that is usually a composite of one or more web-based images.[5] In many of these macros, Espinoza attempts to challenge conservative viewpoints of gender and sex by using phrases such as "female bodied" in her macros to assert the differences between gender and sex assignment.[5]

In other macros, Espinoza has discussed similar viewpoints on gender, gender-based violence, and transmisogyny.[4] She critically examines the ways our society systematically promotes violence, especially against women and against transgender people. She simultaneously challenges traditional images of women and of femininity in art, an image which is largely created and policed by "(cisgender, heterosexual) white men."[4]

Espinoza's works have been published by many online publishers, such as Shabby Doll House,[6] Electric Cereal,[7] and Voicemail Poems.[8] Her work has also been published in ebook form, such as in Trans Planet, published by Alexandra Naughton through Be About It press.[9] Her work has also been published in print, most notably i'm alive / it hurts / i love it, which was published by Boost House, and in The YOLO Pages, a collection of poems edited by Steve Roggenbuck, E. E. Scott, and Rachel Younghans.[1] Both her poems and videos have been reviewed by Alt Lit reviewer and author Beach Sloth.[10][11]

In August 2016 her second collection THERE SHOULD BE FLOWERS was published by Civil Coping Mechanisms.[12]

References

  1. 1 2 Roggenbuck, Steve; Scott, E. E.; Younghans, Rachel, eds. (Apr 2014). The YOLO Pages. Boost House. p. 51. ISBN 0996069100.
  2. ↑ "I'm Alive/It Hurts/i Love it – Joshua Jennifer Espinoza – Google Books". Google Books.
  3. ↑ "I'M ALIVE / IT HURTS / I LOVE IT by joshua jennifer espinoza — Boost House". Boost House. Boost House. Retrieved 11 Feb 2015.
  4. 1 2 3 D., D. "Spotlight on Joshua Jennifer Espinoza". Enclave. Enclave. Retrieved 11 Feb 2015.
  5. 1 2 D., D. "Spotlight on Macros". Enclave. Enclave. Retrieved 11 Feb 2015.
  6. ↑ Espinoza, Joshua Jennifer. "A Love/Hate Relationship". Shabby Doll House. Shabby Doll House. Retrieved 11 Feb 2015.
  7. ↑ "wind poems". Electric Cereal. 22 Jan 2015. Retrieved 11 Feb 2015.
  8. ↑ Espinoza, Joshua Jennifer. "'untitled poem'". Retrieved 12 Feb 2015.
  9. ↑ "Trans Planet I". Be About It. Be About It (eds. D. D. & Alexandra Naughton). Retrieved 18 Mar 2015.
  10. ↑ Beach Sloth (11 Aug 2014). "i'm alive/it hurts/i love it, by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza". Retrieved 12 Feb 2015.
  11. ↑ Beach Sloth (26 Oct 2014). "joshua jennifer espinoza – "you breathe from a garden in your neck"". Retrieved 12 Feb 2015.
  12. ↑ "There Should Be Flowers by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza | CCM". copingmechanisms.net. Retrieved 2016-08-15.
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