Bücher von Cat Chong

In 712 Stanza Homes for the Sun Cat Chong gives voice to populations at the intersections of gender, literary genre, disability, race, and chronic illness. The hypnotic collection is complimented by a compelling array of internet screenshots: instagram, twitter, wikipedia etc to question how poetic language might replace dehumanising medical terminology and disrupt realities of state violence. This work engages with entangled and overlapping environmental, gendered, colonial, and medical systems and practices to inquire after radical models of love, solidarity, and care.

Cat Chong's Plain Air: An Apology in Transit is a pamphlet in flux, a diary like inner-monologue without a single full stop, charting the speaker's journeys from A to B yet evoking a bigger change, as the speaker leaves behind student life and wanders into the wider world. 'Plain Air...' contains meditations on disability, opioid use, carbon emissions, food waste and veganism backdropped by extinction rebellion protests and the songs of Oh Wonder. It's a pamphlet of quiet courage, resonant and resolutely rooted in the now.