🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

Honored to have my poem “Quadrennial” featured on the covers of this month’s Culture Issue of In These Times. This poem opens my new book REPRISE, grappling with American politics & colonialism. Shout out to sherell. for their care & editorial vision for this feature ✨

🔗 EPISODE 173! 🔗 In today’s episode, we discuss “June Jordan on Palestine and American Delusions” in In These Times, which features an intro by Sherell Barbee (sherell.).

Might beauty standards finally be released from the chokehold of thinness and migrate to an environment of fair representation for all? #VSFashionShow2024—By @teenoir_ inthesetimes.com/article/fatpho…

Two poems on Tyre Nichols and the spectacle of police-sanctioned Black death by Cortney Lamar Charleston — published in the special Culture issue of In These Times edited by sherell. inthesetimes.com/article/poetry…

"To build a revolutionary culture is to keep our dreams intact and our eyes peeled for the break in the clouds." Our culture editor sherell. on how we keep fighting for collective liberation and strong communities, whatever the results of the election. inthesetimes.com/article/cultur…

If you get arrested at a protest say: (1) I don't consent to a search, (2) I want an attorney, (3) I am going to remain silent.

i'm going to be clinging to things like art, community, and empathy not just in the days to come, not just in the following years, but my entire life. those are the only things that make sense to me even when the rest of the world doesn't

✨ EPISODE 176! ✨ In today’s episode, we discuss the piece “Black-Palestinian Solidarity in Moments of Crisis and Beyond” by Nashwa Bawab in In These Times.

Two new moving and powerful poems for this moment from Golden (they/them). inthesetimes.com/article/poetry…

what to do when ice is at your door

The work of Dr. Selamawit D. Terrefe (1970-2024) Here are 16 documents drive.google.com/drive/folders/…

“I hope I die warmed by the life that I tried to live.” Nikki Giovanni

The St. Louis American (& it still exists today) since 1928

"The primary issue facing queer and trans people in Palestine is the occupation and genocide perpetrated by Israel. You can’t move towards queer liberation if you’re being bombed and occupied." Latest by Henry Hicks IV for In These Times inthesetimes.com/article/pride-…

"Landlords have a lot of power over tenants’ living conditions, and just-cause laws shift some of that power back into the hands of renters, promoting housing stability and better quality of life." J.P. inthesetimes.com/article/big-id…

"Building a deliberately time-consuming photographic process is as much a political statement as the photographs themselves, pushing back against the digital deluge of images and information that floods our modern lives." inthesetimes.com/article/photog…

My latest for In These Times on the “cultural drag ban” affecting pro-Palestine drag queens, the erasure of queer Palestinians, and the movement for Palestine's fight to return Pride to its original, liberatory roots. W/ Queering The Map, Lil Miss Hot Mess, and more! (Link below)