"Through a combination of lyric, narrative, & fractured essay, Sympathetic Little Monster attempts to make a space and a shape for the little girl who haunts our cultural/ personal narratives about blackness and transmasculinity. As a trans coming-of-age text the work is intensely inward- focused, but it resists the imperative of linear autobiography. Instead, it uses the personal as a tool to explore what kind of thing a self is, its relation to trauma and objectification, and its capacity to be multiple.