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a digital chapbook dedicated to exploring the concept of constraint in black life. click the links above to explore the chapbook's contents.

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SOLANGE - DON'T TOUCH MY HAIR (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

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I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me

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“She's applying her lipstick; I've always believed that the universe invented the color red solely for Latinas.” ― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

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Nina Simone: To Be Free

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Erykah Badu - On & On

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What is black culture? I read the writing on the wall on the side of the “Y” as I always have: “Harlem Plays the Best Ball in the World.” I look in the mirror and see my face in the mural with a new haircut. I am a New York girl; I am a New York woman; I am a flygirl with a new hair cut in New York City in a mural that is dying every day.

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I get off the IRT in front of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture after riding an early

who exactly am I, anyway, finding myself in these ghostly, Douglas shadows while real ghosts walk around me, talk about my stuff in the subway, yell at me not to butt the line, beg me, beg me, for my money?