Genocide in any age is horrifying…for painful months, my outrage has burned–but I had not found time to do more than share posts or talk about the issue in my communities… On Saturday, June 8th, I was proud to take to the streets… our mobilization attempted to surround the White […]
racism
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Prologue: Displacement has a long history on this groundNacotchtank: the Piscataway people’s name for this landDescribing the convergence of rivers and its peopleThis park was a Black cemeteryPowerful abolitionists lie interred hereWe imagine a legacySeeds of contemporary resistanceSowed by generations long past Act I: A History of Segregation […]
e My lips are a place of deep conditioningMy full Black lipsSo much less perfect than my white father’sSo much uglier than those of my white cousinsI love them nowBut once they were a psychic scar At age ten I learned to hold them pursedLike a precocious supermodelI still do […]
Scattershot photo-opsGrip my mindPierce my heart Black beauty and faith rise transcendentRivers of injustice are never-ending Light and shadow interweaveCrafting a sacred tapestryTattoos writhe with tantric energyProjecting emphatic ecstasyProjecting prophetic potency Pain and joyHope and prideManifesting before my vulnerable eyes Flood and fireLove and rageWrithing against historic psychic chains We […]
The river black and matte like rubber urges me to think of the pastOceans of crime and centuries of grime dismembered by our magic at last Nations of Black bodies ensnared by other AfricansSold as chattel to avaricious conquistadors and mercantilistsThe river bleeds red in memory of this holocaust This […]
Living with purpose—living with joy and passionShe is an oracle of truth—of psychospiritual reactions Her totems are windows into her being’s manifestationsThe giraffe connotes perspective—the butterfly signifies transformation The metaphysical power of snake medicine lies in her gifted handsWe shed old skins but sustain our essential power as lethal venom […]
This is a fantasy and a vision—it is a vector in the exercise of erotic imagination… I saw your lips meet those of your dancer, and I imagined that they were my own… I imagined the contours of your body as they channel the power of godlings of the subconscious… […]
Their eyes pulsate with emotion… All of their limbs are taut and ready animated by the urgency of the moment… These are the guardians of that which was not taken These shamanic warriors defend the motherland, guarding space for our people to thrive… We whose ancestors were expropriated fight for […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
collective grief and collective ragefreedom crushed, jailed and chainedwe rise in power saying all of their nameswe resist this toxic fascist plague we find joy in struggle and joy through our tearsacross our nation we rise to conquer fearpower quakes when our fires are revealedif they don’t concede we […]
black bondage, black pain–black pride, black rageour people have been birthed through the torturous lacerations of whips and chains fear is our enemy so trust in the divinesacred powers heal historic wounds and bend the flow of time whats mine is yours and whats yours is mineunleash the godlike serpent […]
black men are fucking beautiful–and it hurts me that sometimes i don’t see that i was born to a black mother and a white father, with tons of white cousins but none on my mother’s side so that and systemic toxicity combined so that while only 8 or so i […]
apologies… for this is a frantically written poem–struggling to come to grips with a cataclysmic situation eager to fuel the white nationalist vitriol of his base, our would-be-dictator is deploying the national guard to persecute migrants fleeing poverty and desperation and seeking some faint hope of a better life the […]
its indictment monday and heads are rolling its a perp walk of the privileged and our resistance is growing we are fighting for regime change here at home we are fighting for a future that justice and karma will condone manafort is going down—flynn was booted out in disgrace but […]
as long as our ancestors have inhabited this earth we have sought stories to give meaning to our death and our birth we have craved sex, money, power, and pride we have yearned to give voice to what gestates inside the human species has evolved to yearn and transform creating […]
flying high on dopamine i see visions in the sky hieroglyphics everywhere seducing my mind late at night when i close my eyes i see wormholes to distant galaxies we must resist the pathologization of our tribe’s neurodiversity i dream in staccato rhythms–refueling energy for the day ahead i am […]
nazi flags flying proud confronted by anti-fascist crowds charlottesville bleeding red heather heyer left for dead the depths of white supremacy laid raw and bare confederate monuments in our movement’s cross-hairs its high time for a new reconstruction dismantling the prison complex with abolition the fight for black lives rises […]
so much ink has been spilled over the past week about the abhorrent resurgence of overtly nazi agitation in charlottesville the taking of a life far too soon the loss of Heather Heyer still so visceral in our hearts it has been a tumultuous week and I am grateful at […]
on june 10th 2017 dc threw down trans and queer activists blockaded the pride parade after months of fruitless conversation with the gay elite this is a movement moment–stonewall was an urban rebellion against homophobia and police oppression its time to go back to our roots…with the unmentionable president in […]
we are vagrants and migrants united by defiance we swear by mutant creeds evolving newborn science la lutte ouvriere–class war in gallic style flows through intersectional rivers elevating the marginalized… un ejercito grows transcendant a global army rising proud la justicia es nuestra alma black power here and now infidel […]
speaking truth to a nation addicted to lies standing strong in a world seduced by the buy taking a knee and taking the heat raising a fist and crunking the beat colin the prophet–black jesus reborn bringing huey’s manic genius to martin’s sacred song black lives under fire–immigrants under siege […]
FROM HATE AND GUILT TO HOPE AND PRIDE FROM PAIN AND SHAME TO SLEEK AND FLY QUEERS ON FIRE BURNING BRIGHT TAKING THE STREETS–CLAIMING THE LIGHT BUTCH AND FEMME BLACK AND WHITE TRANS AND CIS BRANDING THE NIGHT PERFECT ILLUSION EVOLVING TONIGHT EROTIC CONFUSION DESCRIBING DELIGHT QUEER POWER TAKING THE […]