More protectors of that which nation doesn’t recognize—the ‘noncitizen’ and earth—getting killed. Truly devastating

More protectors of that which nation doesn’t recognize—the ‘noncitizen’ and earth—getting killed. Truly devastating

Heart sick #endempire #abolishice

Solidarity with all of my friends and comrades in MN. My deep condolences to the loved ones of the person who was murdered.

We don't have to live like this.

“Birzeit University affirms that education will remain an act of anti-colonial resistance, and that the University will continue to be a space for knowledge and freedom” ❤️

“No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.” Zora Neale Hurston, ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God’

The sentence that opens wounds. The sentence that closes the book. The sentence that damages the nation. The sentence that rejects categorization. The sentence that exposes the truth. The sentence that demands nothing. The sentence that refuses everything.

“Birzeit University affirms that education will remain an act of anti-colonial resistance, and that the University will continue to be a space for knowledge and freedom” ❤️

Happy birthday to Zora Neale Hurston 💐💐💐

"I want to imagine...a kind of out of doors safety where "a sleepless woman could always rise from her bed, wrap a shawl around her shoulders and sit on the steps in the moonlight. And if she felt like it she could walk out the yard and on down the road… Toni Morrison

I pre-ordered this book "Techno-Negative: A Long History of Refusing the Machine" and am looking forward to it. I don't know the author's work but I am very interested in the topic. Seems very timely. www.upress.umn.edu/978151791773...

“The left-hand pages swell like dunes in some years”—Dionne Brand

“The left-hand pages swell like dunes in some years”—Dionne Brand

Cutting from SNAP is removing resources…what does resource-rich mean when death and extraction are its conditions?

Taking care away from trans kids is removing resources

Thinking about the word “resource” …how colonialism extracts from its very definition such that its relation to relation is violently removed

Cutting from SNAP is removing resources…what does resource-rich mean when death and extraction are its conditions?

Taking care away from trans kids is removing resources

Hold Your Own is available at the Free Library of Philadelphia ✨ catalog.freelibrary.org/Record/2710155

Thinking about the word “resource” …how colonialism extracts from its very definition such that its relation to relation is violently removed

Sending love and good energy for your morning

I enjoy writing ❤️

"The sentence provides us a space for wandering." Renee Gladman

I enjoy writing ❤️

Anyway wishing that you find solace and soft places to land if you're currently feeling overwhelmed.

Recently, I was honored to receive an advanced copy of gitan djeli’s ’unrest in the nebulae’ (forthcoming, Duke University Press, ‘Writing Matters!’ book series, March 2026) @dukepress.bsky.social

"The sentence provides us a space for wandering." Renee Gladman

My favorite part of reading is when a book gets so good you have to set it down, (finger marking the page), and just let your mind be blown for a minute before picking it back up again.

Recently, I was honored to receive an advanced copy of gitan djeli’s ’unrest in the nebulae’ (forthcoming, Duke University Press, ‘Writing Matters!’ book series, March 2026) @dukepress.bsky.social

I'm not a poet but I aspire toward poetry..thankful for writing that calls for that mode of engagement... a venture past the limits of the sentence's normative architectural inclinations

"what forms of power can be located by naming the extractive view?” Dr. Macarena Gómez-Barris

Good morning 🌞

I'm not a poet but I aspire toward poetry..thankful for writing that calls for that mode of engagement... a venture past the limits of the sentence's normative architectural inclinations

"the inconceivable decibels of all the things we've lived before" Dionne Brand, "prologue for now-Gaza"

"what forms of power can be located by naming the extractive view?” Dr. Macarena Gómez-Barris

Your daily calm. (male mountain bluebird) #birds #calm #peaceful (photo credit unknown)

Heart sick #endempire

“Narcotrafficking” is an interesting conceptual category used by officials in a country where people die because they can’t afford insulin

“Something has to be done about the way in which this world is set up.” June Jordan

I'm deeply sorry to the people of Venezuela. There is no opposition party in the United States to counter the fascist regime's actions and the population is easily demagogued.

The languages are of imperialism—“extraction” and “capture”. Cruel grammars and acts. People have died and earth has been plundered. This must end

"What must be made manifest, confronted, spoken in these catastrophic times includes the rejection of that which is manufactured as consent and the offering in its place of another set of understandings and imaginings of the given world and the made world." Dr. Christina Sharpe

The language used was and is “extraction”

An excerpt: “[Clementine] Hunter's innovations in scale quite literally change the relation between flesh and earth. In [her painting] Harvest Time, the rearrangement of the field intermixes it with atmosphere so that you see sky appear between, not above, each row….

"The city has no contours yet and no buildings, that is why there’s a bicycle in some poems, and a syntax bunched like a new wall..."_ Dionne Brand, Verso 3 from her book The Blue Clerk

I concluded my book ‘Black Gathering’ with some writing alongside Clementine Hunter’s beautiful art

I concluded my book ‘Black Gathering’ with some writing alongside Clementine Hunter’s beautiful art

…The earthly living her paintings describe, enact, make possible and reimagine are those i hope will experience uninterruption…joining a wish for the end of white supremacy, settler colonialism..unearthly barricades and borders and other carceral frames in this new year.”