T4t

Lest one forget pleasure is a human right, Evelyn Berry edges the reader toward that realization-again, and again, and again-in T4T. Of course, pleasure is sexual, the way that lovers ＂pretend our freckles honeysuckle.＂ But it’s not just sexual; it’s beyond sexual. It is the pleasure of life, of embodiment, of safety, and of care and attention. (The latter of which are two descriptors I could easily also apply to Berry’s craft. Those line breaks, like a switchblade surprise!) And the title says who the pleasure is for, and with whom the pleasure is shared: trans for trans, that delectable ＂erotic symmetry.＂ But pleasure, unlike some romantic notions of it, isn’t best when it is fleeting.＂

- Emilia Phillips, author of Nonbinary Bird of Paradise, Embouchure, & Empty Clip