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Checkout Chick

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    Punk poet & community organiser JONI BOYD is releasing CHECKOUT CHICK: her first collection since 2018’s full length City Without Stories and her first new work since coming out as trans.
    
More intimate and personal than her former ego ‘Laundry Man’ ever could’ve been, Checkout Chick is a sour, cheeky and scatter-brained picture of the early stages of a transformation, standing on the precipice of a newfound womanhood and learning to love the world and the self despite the chaos of dysphoria, depression and customer service.
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Cold Pink Smoke 02:17
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The Bird 01:39
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Register One Please 01:47
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Do I Look Like I Was Born Yesterday? 01:00
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A Promise 02:08
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Honey Roasted Cashews 01:16
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110kmph 00:53
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Coming Out On Facebook 02:05
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You and Me (Against) The World 02:58
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about

Checkout Chick
MAY 2021 by Joni Boyd

for the girl I never got to be

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Throughout Joni Boyd’s bibliography, there is a fascination
with resistance, resilience, and revolution. Checkout Chick
revels in this. It also feels entirely new.
When I met Joni in early 2016 through Spoken Word Perth, I
think now that we were both in the midst of significant
inner revolutions. I was emerging from a bout of severe
agoraphobia and leaning heavily on the healing of creative
expression. Joni was well-established in the Perth poetry
community, between both performing and organising. Like
most of us late-adolescent poets of the time, I found her
work totally invigorating and energising. She spoke of
phoenix as a verb, of anarchy, of betrayal of myths, of
coming of age, of coming out. Importantly, I also saw
immense hope in her work, even in scenes of great
trepidation and trauma. Now, that hope has exploded
open, wide as the horizon.
Pixels of wild pain, familiar and unfamiliar, helixes with
boundless, boundless, boundless love. Love. This embrace
of possibility colours earlier work with a note of tension,
repression. There was always discourses of opportunity
and choice (see: loose change, 2016, Department of

Poetry), especially in the context of anarchism. Gender
anarchy and body-chaos, too, are not new ideas for Joni: I
return now to her collection City Without Stories (2018,

Indifference Publications) and meditate upon the body-
disassociation in Song for the Skull Inspectors and Give

Me. The struggle for hope amid late-capitalist despair of A
Milligram of Love. That sense of hope has ignited, and it
gallops across the pages of Checkout Chick.
A profound awe and respect for land underpins this
collection; I wonder if it mirrors the notion of body-healing
that I sense. The body-land bond runs deep and
unjudgmental. There is such freedom here that we have
never seen from Joni in its full, boundless power, and it
shines through the work. Something of a paintbrush
unloosed; springtime in timbre; warm rosemary milk; the
flutter of djiti djiti. Her work has always invited us to see
with her shrewd observational nature. But Checkout Chick
indicates a turn; it is open, free; poetic evolution. Love and
joy.

Again, she rises.
Luka Buchanan
May 2021

credits

released May 15, 2021

Poems edited and collected April 2021 on Wadjuk Noongar
Boodja. Recorded at home May 2021 on Wadjuk Noongar Boodja.
A Promise, Honey Roasted Cashews, 110KMPH
written on Martidja Banyjima Country.
All else written on
Noongar Boodja.

Thanks to Saoirse Nash, Luka Buchanan, Matt Norman,
Sarah Ure, Jesse Boyd, Sarah Stewart, and all my
trans/enby friends for helping me find my way here.

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Checkout Chick Perth, Australia

JONI BOYD

poet / gigmaker / zinester / visualz

Boorloo / Perth WA

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