about antmen
antmen pimentel mendoza (he + she) is a scorpio, bakla, and poet. antmen is based in the unceded land of Chochenyo speaking Ohlone people (Richmond, CA).
antmen received a B.A. in Gender Studies with minors in Rhetoric and Ethnic Studies from UC Berkeley. She works at a university cultural center collaborating with students of color on curriculum development and managing a community-based lending library.
Photo by Andres Serrano.
antmen’s writing
Say recovery is to believe in & be the one I am waiting for.
Photo ©2019 Kearny Street Workshop/Kimberley Arteche
Poetry
The Takoyaki Vending Machines and I in PINE HILLS REVIEW, 2020
Ode to the Moon, the Earth’s Only Satellite, with Years of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in LANTERN REVIEW, 2020
The Gay Dads in the Milk Ad that Tells Me to “Love What’s Real” Consider a Gay Divorce in PEACH MAG, 2020
Carry in HOMOLOGY LIT, 2020
I Lean Into the Throat of Summer + Self-Portrait as the Potato that Flew around My Room in UNDERBLONG, 2020
On Grammar + Poem Named after the Grindr Notification Tone in COSMONAUTS AVENUE, 2019
Press
Interview & two poems, Family Portrait as a Deck of Cards + My College Boyfriend Really Liked Kill Bill, or “Not to weigh down one’s thoughts with the weight on one’s shoes” (after Nadja) in RADAR blog, 2020
Readings
Backyards: Poets for Local Change, September 26, 2020, online
Interdisciplinary Writers' Lab, Kearny Street Workshop, September 12, 2020, online
Lyrics & Dirges, February 19, 2020, Berkeley, CA
KSW Presents: A History of Our Naming, November 22, 2019, San Francisco, CA