“Muscles” is a reworking of an excerpt from Kathy Acker’s text “Against Ordinary Language, the Language of the Body,” presented in the form of a public manifesto. In this essay, Acker—known for her feminist and queer approach to literature and, in particular, for her appropriation of existing languages—seeks to find the words to describe her experience of bodybuilding in a gym.  The author describes the gym as a "geography without language," since the bodies working out there tend to be vocal without being verbally articulate. The text engages with the body performing the practice, raising questions about the exploration of one's own queerness as a tool of liberation against established structures, against the stifling and dead norms that govern our lives. The action unfolds as a present-tense repetition, focusing on the visual and narrative potential of each word—a form of public literature that disrupts the unfolding and resolution of progressive narratives: each poster stands as a solitary element that subverts formalism and leads to unresolved threads of visual inquiry.