Through a combination of lyric, narrative, & fractured essay, Sympathetic Little Monster attempts to make a space & a shape for the little girl who haunts our cultural / personal narratives about blackness & 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 & objectification, & its capacity to be multiple.