Caribbean wind, Polynesian storm: Poems and Observations about Colonialism and Trans History - Paperback

by Arvida Juni Svenske (Author)

Arvida Juni Svenske is a poet, a folk high-school teacher, writer and journalist born into this world as a woman, in a place called Stockholm, Sweden. Her names mean Eagle Wood June The Swedish One if you translate them directly, but why would you do that? She studied journalism in Stockholm, to be a teacher in Linköping and most of her twenties was spent in Malmö trying to find out who she was. Turns out she was a poet who in 2024 was about to publish her first comprehensive poetry collection in English, Caribbean Wind, Polynesian Storm published by She Rises. In it, she poured her heart as well as into processing the history of Sápmi-region in Northern Europe, the Caribbean, the Pacific Ocean Island as well as Central Asia, the colonial crimes committed there as well as the knowledge lost, especially other views on gender than the two-gender-norm being unsuccessfully carried out in most of the world. Arvida has released half a dozen poetry collections in Sweden and has written prose, journalistic and poetry in a number of magazines, both online and in print. She's currently writing a follow-up book that details her journey into womanhood, Estrogen speech.