I Call My Sexuality My God

About the Book

I Call My Sexuality My God: My Shampoo and My Watermelon Juice is a fiercely feminist poetry collection, which explores womanhood collocations, while challenging anti-feminine conventions and debunking sexist clichés. It employs complementary perspectives, speaking in multifarious textures and tonal blends of the female voice. This rather daring collection tables topics that would not normally be addressed in girl-power conferences, due to the fear of disparagement. It tactfully raises issues that would have been dead on arrival in, say, 1921, thereby making the most of the hope presented us by modern day liberalism, while recognizing the yet imperfect female disposition of the 2010’s — the decade in which it was written. From comical mind-teasers like “You Should Love My Grandfather” to meditative precepts like “The Sovereignty of the Suffering Tree”, I Call My Sexuality My God assumes the mandate of an all-rounder in finding a place for sensuality in morality. A three-in-one phenomenon, I Call My Sexuality My God was featured in the "Discover New Titles" segment of the New York Times in 2018.

About the Author

Victoria Toluwase Ifeolu is the author of two novels, a poetry collection, a short story collection, a collection of prose-poems, a fantasy chapbook and a novella. On the frontline is the mainstream poetry collection, I Call My Sexuality My God: My Shampoo and My Watermelon Juice, deemed her seminal work and boasting acclaim in The New York Times, The Kenya Today, and The Reader's House, London. Her most notable awards include the Canadian Software Development Company Scholarship, the Polis Books Black Writer Scholarship, the Nigerian Stored Products Research Institute Essay Prize, the Mazariyya Prize for Poetry, and a Book Author of the Year Title conferred on the verge of lockdown in 2020. In 2019, she was shortlisted on three occasions for the Ad Hoc Fiction Prize. Her stand-alone poems have been published in widely-read anthologies, two of which are The Tracery of Trees by the Poetry Institute of Canada (BC), and Where the Mind Dwells by Eber & Wein (Pennsylvania). She studied English Literature at the Bachelor’s level, and is currently studying Intersectional Indigeneity, Race, Ethnicity and Politics at the Master’s level. Born in 1998, she identifies as an anti-periodization scholar, who enjoys intercepting orthodoxies.