Allyship 1 Identify the hair root-cause of self-hatred Mother washing my hair with chamomile tea To make it blonde But she only made me a “bachaca” “Yellow” All throughout my childhood I never understood why A woman who despised Black people Married the son of a Black woman Gave him seven children I wasn’t …
No wonder this fake fuck president is hated more than Dr. Fauci and just about everybody else in the world — except dictators, of course. He’s got hatred on his mind and cooties in his Covid mask. He breathes racism, jealousy and narcissism so deep, it goes all the way to China. This is world …
When I was a community college student in Long Beach, California, I browsed the library catalogue looking for books containing interviews with famous writers and poets. I was particularly interested in craft—i.e. how writers and poets approach their work, how they start, maintain momentum, and conclude their stories or poems. Now some thirty years later, …
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I started reading science fiction when I was a teenager in the 1980s, and I subscribed to as many magazines as I could afford. What I liked about science fiction then was that it was both distracting and engaging. It distracted me from what was often a very painful time for me, dragging me out …
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There is no sun. The sun left long ago when times got tough and people got greedy and ate the sun. Now there’s only gray light. (“Precognition”) “May you live in interesting times.” (expression incorrectly attributed to an ancient Chinese curse) Nothing tastes and smells better than French coffee. The flavor of French …
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This was a week when Italy’s La Scala Ballet was to perform Giselle and Onegin, two full-length story ballets that revolve around different types of revenge after mistreatment of women by men in positions of power. Meanwhile…the floor of Congress was the stage as a congresswoman articulately shredded a male colleague’s non-apology for misogynistic behavior. …
Pandemic Noir 2020: Love and Loneliness The poem about the woman who gets seated at a restaurant table across from a manikin; the poem about a man surrounded by a worldwide pandemic, trying to live nine lives all at the same time; the movie that has Lt. Commander Clint Reed, M.D,. and Captain Tom Warren …
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SUBSEQUENCE I have brought you here so you will know forever/The silences which are our beginnings ~Eaven Boland Look here, my years don’t make of me a footnote, not a semi-mystic, not an elder “woman poet,” nor am I a poetESS. ESS indeed… ESS does not fit the largeness of my anger, the uncomfortable …
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