THE CALL-OUT

Novel in verse.

Anvi, Kate, Bette, Keiko, Gaia, and Day are six queer, mostly trans, women surviving and thriving in Brooklyn. Each of their lives isn't perfect, but whose is? It's only through a pyrophilic voyeur's "Call-Out" of the sister-hood online that we learn how the community has struggled to hold itself accountable to itself - mostly in earnest efforts, but often resulting in absurd, self-sabotaging effects. With each "post" of the thread, readers are brought into a story that reflects another Puck's view from their famous mid-summer night: love is fundamentally riven by humor and any efforts in favor of self-love can be quite overcome by it. Whether such humorific love creates actual laughter or tears is a matter of only the slightest differences in circumstance and point of view.

CAT FITZPATRICK is the first trans woman to serve as Director of the Women's and Gender Studies program at Rutgers University–Newark, and the Editrix at LittlePuss Press. She is the author of a collection of poems, Glamourpuss (Topside Press) and co-edited the anthology Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction & Fantasy from Transgender Writers, which won the ALA Stonewall Award for Literature. The Call-Out is her first novel