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“The life that remains. The life that continues to defy certain removal and dismemberment of self from self from his/herstory from family from truth from gods from us–of old, new, now and tomorrow–we celebrate, that even still our death has not been won, paid for, laid claim to. We celebrate that at least, for us, the power to die remains the province of the flesh hold the beating heart in its crevice…”

“The revolution will cost all that we have. It will cost our lives, with the ever-elusive promise, that we might transcend the products, producers and midwives of violence we have become…”

The work is a tour de force if not for the sheer breadth of content, then for the refusal of its sweeping verse to comfort when comfort is not on the menu for the subjects at hand. It is more than unflinching—it unsettles, it bites, it scars, it lingers, and it loves, simultaneously in a language perfected by, common and accessible to those who have perfected the art of living while Black, BlaQueer or Queer….”

    The American Dream is an illusory promise that was made during the constitution, a contractual understanding of sorts, between land owning white men. It posited that if they…

The most organized, corrupt, entrenched and funded gang in America? The police. They’ve been lynching, beating, stabbing, whipping, flogging, drowning, raping, robbing, framing, imprisoning, entrapping, coercing, segregating, filleting, shooting, slapping,…

Dear White Supremacy, I hope this message finds you well and warm. You’ve been sick and cold lately. I couldn’t hardly have expected more. You were just born that way–what…