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exercise in playfulness

ought ought ought ought to do bought bought bought bought a flu sought sought sought sought a crew drought drought drought drought of youth!

so

you don’t want the boy to know how much you want the boy to know so. don’t tell him much. you want the boy to know how much you want the boy to know so.

goodbye

you deserve what you want and so do i i’m sorry sister goodbye, goodbye

the weight of all these things i cannot change

you saw that i was afraid and called me a cowardyou saw that i was hungry and called me a beggaryou saw that i was tiredand called me lazyyou saw that i was angryand called me dangerwhat is the weight of all these things i cannot change?

moves mountains

fe – connoisseur of all the spots and grasses to rest and allthe ciders andwines and chemicalswho showed me the woman in the mountain and the word for spiderin yr languagethank you

songs we learned to hate in school

songs we learnedto hate our selvesin schoolwe learnt to hatethe color of me in songswe learntto hatethe sheepwhose fleece was white as snow

Black feminism at the end of the world: an interview with Zakiyyah Iman Jackson | SpringerLink

Black feminism at the end of the world: an interview with Zakiyyah Iman Jackson — Read on link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41312-022-00131-7

Non-monogamy in Audre Lorde’s Zami

“Muriel and I decided that nothing could break the bonds between us, certainly not the sharing of our bodies and our joys with another woman whom we had come to love also. Our taking of Lynn to our bed became, not merely a fact to be integrated into our living, but a test for eachContinue reading “Non-monogamy in Audre Lorde’s Zami”

African Nationalism is not European Nationalism

When You Speak To Me

When you speak to me I am faced with You very real and proper Anger mixed with concern And yes bio-logic Which forces me to In The Same Breath Defend Myself And take your rage tru To not let myself Off the hooks of your pain But also I cannot go to the sea-floor WithContinue reading “When You Speak To Me”