If you find yourself constantly discussing “liberalism”, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this text. Not because you should agree with every conclusion but because its primary text for actually understanding what liberalism is, has been, could be (theoretically).

So excited to have my poem Treatment Plan (forthcoming in Good Dress) published in the latest issue of Joan McMillan. Many many thanks to My middle initial isn’t ‘x’ , who selected my poem to be apart of the Queer Love folio ❤️

mind you:
• homelessness is on the rise
• we in a new-age recession
• healthcare's an absolute joke
• human rights is a scam
• the JN. 1 covid variant on the rise
• the rich getting fatter, while the middle and working classes are starving in a melting pot

𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞

“The most fundamental truth to be told in any art form, as far as Blacks are concerned, is that America is killing us.”

Sonia Sanchez “Ruminations/Reflections” (1984)

Sunday Blues

1830 was also the year of the Indian Removal Act under populist/racist Democratic president Andrew Jackson (who faked the “common man” to get poor white men on board consolidating white supremacy). Also when Blackface was established as first commercial pop. It’s in my book.

this is the sundayest saturday ever.

Blockbuster was so fun on a Friday night.💛

Why wld you do THIS to the person who according to your standards is the smartest student at your school. She’s valedictorian. She aced every test u gave her and you’re SILENCING HER?!?! She the best you got you foooool!!!

the 1830s.

No and bitches love it

May all of you academics—you know who you are—willfully entering Faustian bargains with your overlords ultimately get what you want. I continue to stand in solidarity with students, who understand the struggle and who accept the sacrifices that struggle demands.

Stop. Offering. Your. Thoughts. Until. You. Have. Actually. THOUGHT.

I love my students.

An alliteration poem shared with permission. 💛

Black bi/pan masc ppl are reading my book 🥹

All of the above lol

The protests at CU remind me of when I learned that Prof. Marcellus Blount — first Black TT Prof. in English at Columbia — protested with students when he was untenured, despite the risks and potential retaliation. May he rest.

Toni Morrison on voting: “For me it’s like a small prayer by the side off the road.” —Toni Morrison (1998)