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America, so frequently, is excited about the stories of black people but not the black people themselves. Everything is a Martin Luther King, Jr. quote, or a march where no one was beaten or killed. This is why the telling of our own stories has always been important. The idea of black folklore as community is still how we connect to our past, lock
... See moreHanif Abdurraqib • They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
I’m still afraid
of butterflies
how they move so much
like a heart
on fire
Ocean Vuong • Time Is a Mother
accustomed to a life of burden as our appetite for liberation wanes.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
He believed that poetry could cure, or at least go a long way towards curing, almost every ailment. He would prescribe poems to his patients the way other hakims prescribed medicine.
Arundhati Roy • The Ministry of Utmost Happiness: A novel
uncaptured immanence and excess:
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
It’s in the spirit of male loneliness to imagine that someone has to suffer for it.
Hanif Abdurraqib • They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
Hanif Abdurraqib • Lessons for the End of the World
ad infinitum,
Isabella Hammad • The Parisian
All kinds of affection tucked underneath the talking of shit.