A poet who has been a finalist for the National Book Award and identifies as transgender published a volume of poetry in 2017 titled, “feeld,” with examples such as these: “did u kno not a monthe goes bye a tran i kno doesnt dye,” and “gendre is not the tran organe gendre is yes a hemorage.”
As Queerty noted, these changes in standard American spelling as well as the rest of the book earned the plaudits of the Pulitzer Prize committee, which nominated the work as a 2019 finalist in poetry, lauding the work of Jos Charles as “a lyrical unraveling of the circuitry of gender and speech, defiantly making space for bodies that have been historically denied their own vocabulary.” The committee raved:
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