Results for: non-binary

  • A portrait of the author in the middle, in a yellow shirt that reads "No Justice No Peace" with the Black Panthers logo and a yellow beanie cap. To their left side is a cut out of Kamala Harris from Inauguration Day 2021 and to their right side is a cut out of the slavery abolitionist Sojourner Truth. All three images are connected by pearl necklaces and chain link necklaces, both colored in purple. They are against a purple starry night sky.

    Wrestling With Kamala and Beyond: Reckoning With Blackness, Womanhood, and What Comes Next

    February 23, 2021

    I am ready to be fearless. To dream beyond Black womanhood and know that I — Black, queer, and not-quite-sure — am worthy, so worthy of all of the love, affirmation, and power the universe can muster.

  • A black outline of a body floats in the blue and purple waves of the ocean. The ocean is covered in sparkles, like the stars of a night sky. Everything feels all-encompassing, full, and at peace.

    Gender Fluidity and the Black Atlantic

    February 18, 2021

    I always wonder what words my ancestors had for someone like me. In embracing my genderfluid identity, I’ve found great comfort in the deep and wide of the Atlantic — the way the water connects me to kin, named or unknown.

  • a collection of faces and figures flooded in orange, bright green and hot pink, are scattered over a scene of crumbling pillars and doorways. and in between these figures are the gestures of the wings and petals, floating throughout.

    The Labyrinth Closet

    October 11, 2020

    We’re always coming out. As an: anime fanatic, manga-collecting Pokémon plushie hoarder; as a giddy, youthful ray of sunshine and not just the dense, American Dream-deprived immigrant, prompted over-thinker — I realize I am more than any of these individual rooms at all times.