Saint Consequence by Michael M. Weinstein; 2025. Softcover.

Saint Consequence explores gender transition, queerness, disease, and disability through the experiences of some of society’s most vulnerable people living in Russia and other former Soviet countries.

What does it mean to inhabit a body—and for that body to inhabit our beautiful, damaged, shared world? Told through the lens of a transgender and disabled man who spent over a decade living in Siberia, Saint Consequence spans the author’s experiences undergoing gender transition, developing the autoimmune condition that left him chronically disabled, and subsequently re-learning how to walk.

These poems invite us to imagine our place in the world with greater nuance and compassion. The book is a chronicle of cross-cultural interactions and relationships but above all, it is an account of how one person has come to terms with existing within a transgender, crip body amid a precarious world.