October 5, 2025
Regina Avendaño
Regina Avendaño is a Mexican writer, artist, and activist, based in South East London. Working through collaborative practices, Regina explores themes of intimacy, capital realities, and the absurd. She is also the co-founder of the political-artstic collective The Elegists. Regina would like you to read her poems and join your local trade union.
We are rollerblading across the thighs of America and I want to win. Push my luck at the border. Polish shoes with a toothache. A licensed ontology. Spinning over the Gulf. Where the money goes. Where the ocean drinks light out of my refrigerator. Four-thousand birds falling. By official decree.
I believe poetry provides an essential place of mourning and contradiction for our social and political projects. It’s the ‘joke that hurts later’ like you said, it’s the erotica of doomsday. The fact that poetry can hold this mockery while handing us something to hope for, I think is deeply important, particularly when we write from a system that swallows its own critique.