Centuries of oppression and rebellion—of pain and joy—eddy in the waters of time—pregnant with generations of our blood memories… Valkyrie choose the slain in combat—they choose whose blood flows to extinction and whose lives are spared… Black women carry the weight of our struggle in their bones—with marrow communicating routes […]
African Diaspora
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He is an icon and a maverick—a voice of hope, sensuality, pain, and liberation… This creatrix rises to amplify the power of pride and sexuality—to bring the joys of the grind to our post-apocalyptic civilization… Like so many young black men—especially queer young black men—he wondered if his lips were […]
It was my first night on the psych wardI submerged the Bible in the toiletimagining that I would recreate the sacred text over the course of my stayI imagined that the water would unearth messages and channel symbols not visible to the naked eye Floridly manic and coming down from […]
I write from a place deep inside—from a geothermal vent of being and presence Presence is the essence—the essence of our resistanceimparting the power to transform systems and to conjure new religions… The Moon is in Scorpio and I am asked to go deep—to reimagine our world while cocooned in […]
Snake medicine pulsates through my being, unleashing immense powers of creativitybringing psychic energy into awareness and channeling this magic towards our need for healing The kundalini power arising from the root chakra ascends through our snake-like spinal columnI envision a serpentine double-helix armoring our spines and our minds through […]
My eyes seduce the son of god—taking in every sinuous muscle and seductive glance, and absorbing the power of our galaxy’s constellations and the dynamic interplay between lust, sex, and love… We access the cosmic power of the erotic when we allow our spines to be sensuous conduits for tantric […]
dancers stomp, twist, and writhegiving voice to desires pent up deep insidewe long to rise as one and mobilizeour subaltern armies will rule the night our democracy is plagued and under siegewe need cyberpunk power to keep the peacenazis and fascists will come rolling deepbut we are samurai neurodivergents who reclaim […]
i am energized by attraction and by chemical reactioni yearn for connection and for seismic satisfaction this is a quest for transformation and for transcendent liberationthis is a cosmic journey traversing star systems in search of karmic libations i see ebony and onyx animating the pulse of my desirei see […]
in our arrogance, we have claimed lordship over the natural world we have let the talons of profit claw at our sacred mother and our duty to defend the forces that give us life but the earth remembers—and our mother speaks she speaks through the trees and gives voice to […]
I imagine you lying beside meblack on black—skin to skin I feel a fire of liberation deep withinI feel a cocoon of black love opening its arms so I can trust and fall in the contours of your body excite my imagination and your lips are an invitation to sacred […]
limp wrists and raised fiststrans and queer we rearm and resist we harness sacred powers arising in our midstmagical elixirs find their way to our souls through our lips emphatic euphoric and intensely orgasmicthe confluence of emotion is deep and hypnotic our dance with the dialectic is fierce and jaw […]
country twang meets harlem swingan old town road to the world we begin marinating and meditatingfornicating and innovating enjoying the beat driving hard and syncedsummoning the will to nurture and the will to resist this poem is an ode to the dynamo known as lil NasXhe spits rhymes that inspire […]
we are barricade freaks rocking prada in the streetwe style our rage in platinum shades shining strong and rolling deep the sacred healing we seek amplifies our quest for psychic peaceour erotic tectonics seduce the commanders of our dreadnought fleet as barricade freaks we charge ferociously into the streetswe dodge […]
i just awoke from a dream about youi was walking with phyllis owens and we were talking about you and grieving your passing frivolously, i noted how good we all still look on social mediayou, with all your crafted selfies, might have appreciated the moment upon awakening i turned from […]
your eyes entrance, ensnare, and inspireConjuring waves of ecstatic passion that rise up ever higheryour body is a talisman, a sacred interstellar vessel, and an erotic fireyour images sync with my lyrics allowing our reality to amp up and rewire sex is so potent, so visceral, and so elementalyou transfix […]
there is subterranean strength in your body and volcanic energy in your mindthis is a seismic cosmic moment when everything that happens is a sacred signwe craft an epitaph for this system etched in rage, blood, and pridei give in to my higher power and seek a creative serenity deep […]
light and sound become energized and fused into onewe see fractals in the moon and volcanic power in the sunpsychedelic synergy has transformed who we are and what we can becomewe project universal liberation as the cosmic project that is to be done i have learned that i do not […]
i am a vessel for sacred forces arising in a moment of unprecedented global perilwe must draw strength from our collective unconscious to resist a fascist menace that has grown ruthless, desperate, and feral i am anansi the spider weaving webs of wisdom, life, and lovei transmute psychic pain and […]