Notes: the phrase ‘an essential and vital member of a community’ is quoted from political pamphlet Be a Weed by Magda Nawrocka-Weekes, published by FEM Press. All ‘the wiry ungendered bridesmaids of spring’ owe thanks to Leslie Feinberg and Stone Butch Blues.
Hasti is a poet and writer living in South East London. A member of the Southbank New Poets Collective and the Ledbury Poetry Critics, they have published poems in bathmagg, zindabad zine, the Poetry Review and PERVERSE mag, and cowritten short sci-fi film DIGGING, produced by Film4. Hasti also hosts monthly open mic and poetry night Fresh Lip.
