I'm also suspicious of any narrative of identity that privileges roots or any essentialist narrative of motherland. I never write to find home or motherland. Home for me has always been about fragments, so this is also something I try to think about.
Read more#BlackPoetsSpeakOut CONVERSATION: AMANDA JOHNSTON & JIVE POETIC
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The normalization of violence against our bodies is so culturally ingrained that we feel the sensation of luck when white supremacy grants us mercy. How traumatic of a thought is that?
Read moreDOCUMENT CONVERSATION: ANNA GURTON-WACHTER & CANDICE ILOH
This system itself thrives off of me being thrown off every time some horrible shit happens so that ultimately I die before I even die. Knowing that, I make it my business as an artist to find a way to ground and take care of myself enough to, no matter what, arrive back at the desk and live.
Read morePOPULAR CONVERSATION: CHIALUN CHANG & BRIDGET TALONE
Violence is full of power, and expression, and it’s temporary. Popular for me, it’s like the same song that everyone is singing together and no one knows the name of it, nor when to stop.
Read moreVIOLENCE CONVERSATION: SARETTA MORGAN & ALI POWER
Vulnerability. I want to start there.
Read moreSPACE CONVERSATION: CHARITY COLEMAN & JEN LEVITT
I think it was a revival, not a reading. And maybe that’s the thing – we need revivals every now and then.
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