B'ellana Johannx's Satanic Verses Book 1: The Fire Principle

B‘ellana Johannx declares, “our talmud is the miles of poetry written in our bodies.” Satanic Verses is for those who have been afraid to be who they are and for those who are proud to be who they are. This is a text about the stories we tell ourselves as well as the stories that have been told about us. This is a rebuttal and a proclamation. This book says no while also declaring yes. This book throws away old laws to announce new ones. Hail Satan. – Kenning JP Garcia, author of ROBOT: The Waste Land Reimaged B’ellana Johannx’s Satanic Verses: A Guidebook for the New Transfaggot is something of a genreless treatise and assertion of [queer] [trans] life. There is so much happening in this brief collection, that it’s somewhat overwhelming, in a good way—in a challenging and fulfilling way. Satanic Verses is intimacy and vulnerability, violence and subversion. Epic in form, but taking on elements of memoir, interview, and criticism, Johannx’s Guidebook is a godless sermon—a rallying