ABSTRACT Despite an increased awareness of trans identities and civil rights – facilitated by high-profile celebrities such as Laverne Cox – the mainstream US media continues to cast the everyday lives of trans communities in a limited and harmful light. Through an analysis of Ely Shipley’s Boy with Flowers, this article argues that first-person poetry offers a method for self-representation and platform to resist, as well as talk back to, hegemonic narratives of trans embodiment. In doing so, I position Shipley’s poetry as both a reflection of and on contemporary US culture and its policing of gendered bodies, especially under the current Trump administration. Developing the theme of reflection, I argue that the ‘reflections’ operate on physical, mental, and symbolic levels to explore how they register on the speaker’s own experiences of (trans)gender identity and embodiment.

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反映身体：伊利·希普利诗歌中的跨自我表达和抵抗

摘要尽管在诸如Laverne Cox之类的知名人士的帮助下，人们对跨性别身份和公民权利的意识有所提高，但美国主流媒体仍继续将跨性别者的日常生活置于有限而有害的视线之下。通过对伊利·史普利的《花的男孩》的分析，本文认为第一人称诗歌为自我表现和抵制以及反驳跨性别的霸权叙事提供了一种方法。在这样做时，我将希普利的诗歌定位为对当代美国文化及其对两性机构的管制的反思和反思，特别是在现任特朗普政府执政时期。提出反思主题后，我认为“反思”是在身体，精神，