THE INFLUENCERS ARE GASLIGHTING US, by Bleah Patterson

Poetry, chapbook, 36 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

THE INFLUENCERS ARE GASLIGHTING US is an exploration of the speakers own upbringing as a millennial as she navigates fatphobia, deconstruction, and queer identity. These poems are often through the lens of social media, memes, and colloquial vernacular, but always lyrical with careful attention to sensory details and the body.

Bleah Patterson (she/her) is a southern, queer writer born and raised in Texas. She holds degrees in journalism, English, and creative writing from her home state. Much of her work explores comp het, deconstruction, American girlhood, and women’s confessional poetry as it responds to inequitable emotional labor. She has been a SAFTA and BAC resident and her various genres of work are featured or forthcoming in Barely South, Write or Die, Phoebe, The Texas Review, Milk Press, Beaver Magazine, Across the Margins, Electric Literature, Queerlings, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and elsewhere. If she ever has to leave the gulf coast, she’ll miss it dearly.