Emerging from a creative process in spoken word and live performance, this striking and intimate debut collection transforms the page into a stage where the queer femme body is written and mapped onto the colonial space of the home/island of Mauritius. Composed of expansive lyric poems, ZOM-FAM (meaning “man-woman” or “transgender” in Mauritian Kreol) is a voyage into the coming of age of a gender-creative child growing up in the 80s and 90s on the plantation island, as they seek vocabularies for loving and honouring their queer/trans self amidst the legacy of colonial silences.