Baby Back Bitch: a trauma mixtape in four acts
Paperback
Publisher Price: $14.00
Publisher: Baby Back Bitch
Published: May 27 2025
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.13
Height: 0.08 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Baby Back Bitch is a trauma mixtape that refuses to stay quiet-part confessional, part roast, part exorcism of inherited shame. Tian Sanchez-Ballado's debut chapbook detonates inherited silence, queer shame, and intergenerational trauma with surgical precision and theatrical fury. Structured in four acts that spiral from grief to rage to reluctant healing, this collection weaves Cuban-Puerto Rican family ghosts, toxic masculinity, sexual violence, and one spectacularly cursed Chili's breakup in the heart of a book that doesn't apologize-it reclaims. Here, poems flinch and side-eye, scream into the void, and somehow still find their way home. There's no neat redemption arc, no gentle closure-just lyric rage, ugly tenderness, and the sacred camp of surviving your own story. From childhood trauma through college assault to finding love that actually heals, this is a book that honors both the breaking and the blooming. This is not a delicate book. This is a fuck-you-and-also-bless-you book.
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