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interstitial stitching: checkin’ for real womanist solidarity with trans kin

Posted on July 17, 2015

from genesissy & on the eighth day, God said let there be fierce & that’s the story about the first snap, the hand’s humble attempt at thunder, a small sky troubled by attitude // & on the ninth day, God said Bitch, werk & Adam learned to duck walk, dip, pose, death drop, Eve became […]

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Posted in Activism, Body Image, Creative Writing, Gender-based Violence, Human Rights, Political Education, Relationships, Social Justice Tagged autonomy, blkcowrie, body image, community, feminism, gender, gender non-conforming, gender queer, gender violence, heterosexism, identity, self determination, sexual identity, she breathes, solidarity, trans, transgender, transphobia, womanism Leave a comment

purple bruises

Posted on March 9, 2015

*You sho’ is ugly* shug says to celie first, she gathers her close leaps swiftly into her eyes – intimate as a kiss – then, mere centimeters away, cackles up her venom callous words sting, dear speaker, they claw lacerate puncture fragility and You are responsible for the scars *You sho’ is…* post-coital, we lay […]

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“she, until then” by blkcowrie

Posted on May 1, 2013

(***trigger warning: references to sexual violence) * she envies spider webs their transparency, forever moist.  their embrace of gaps, corners and the forgotten, held within a network of countless delicate fingers.  strong enough to hold those that spun them, immune to their paralyzing poisons.  she covets that kind of love. she longs for this love, and […]

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“irrigation” by blkcowrie

Posted on May 1, 2013

i was always absent in your eyes but you were caught in mine lodged between lid & sclera gathering salt. wasn’t it penance enough that holding you choked my blood? did you have to scald my cheeks as you left?   http://blkcowrie.wordpress.com/

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“powdered milk” by blkcowrie

Posted on May 1, 2013

unlike the phoenix, fertilized by fire or the iguana, ever cloaked in awaiting armor our shorn leavings won’t allow human beings to reemerge * that this is now without exception is too much for me to bear * my aries mother insists that her next passage be by fire thus, heralded by a blaze that will only douse […]

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“for g.m.” by blkcowrie

Posted on May 1, 2013

so many doors you wedged to find me first sex to first love to shared home (to left on my own) you made me feel newly desirable and powerful. corazón, no longer tentative with every early creak, i danced to your bomba drum while, slowly, over our years your fingers spanned my chest     gripped its grooves […]

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No One Asks

Posted on March 27, 2013

  I never pictured myself wedding-planning. It never occurred to me that I might find someone I liked enough or had open enough communication with that I would want to make such a commitment. I never leafed through bridal magazines or designated my middle-school friends as future bridesmaids, and you would be hard pressed to […]

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