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The Life I Crave
The Life IÂ Crave
I spoke with a close friend the other day about dreams and how my choices aren’t actively contributing to them. She is absolutely right and it stings to realize how many hours were devoted to mobile games versus daydreams I hold close. It feels like an 8:1 ratio, if you also include the endless scroll and switching accounts to avoid life and my emotions haha ugh. So what do my dreams look like?…
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These Dreams Will Not Wither Inside of Me
These Dreams Will Not Wither Inside of Me
It’s 5:29 in the morning yet I’m at my most alert, despite being awake the entire night. An internal fire has begun and I’m tending to it now through the words you’re reading. Lately the thing I hate about myself the most is how I talk and write about these honestly wonderful ideas, but have made no movement forward beyond some minor note taking. For months now, perhaps many. When I try to…
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It's been on my stories but I decided to place it on my grid since I'm really happy I get to be part of this event. Hosted by @infullcolorus_ & @tbc_spu, I'll be the first one onstage and I will perform monologue "Psychotic Break" which is about my psychoses and the mental illness stigma. I only been in a space like this twice so I'm grateful to be a part of such a necessary and significant conversation. DM me or comment if you want the zoom link and I'll message it to you. It's in five hours and I'm super nervous but I think I'll be okay. During the rehearsal yesterday I was passionate, outspoken, and didn't miss any lines and hopefully that energy will carry over tonight. Let me know if you're attending. See you soon! https://www.instagram.com/p/CQRWX_njxbf/?utm_medium=tumblr
do you remember Shinji Moon? Where is she now? what happened to her? She popped up in my head today, really miss her words.
oh man, i’m sorry, i don’t check tumblr anymore but I hope you’re able to read this.
Yes I still do. She was a fantastic writer and inspired my own works. I loved her poetry book so much. I have no clue where she is now. I know that she deactivated a few years ago but I wish her well and I hope she’s still writing. I miss her words too, I remember checking tumblr daily just to see what she wrote. I hope’s happy and safe wherever she is in the world.
Tomorrow evening I will be talking to @summeringo, founder of @infullcolorus_ on IG live as the #ifcalumna of the month! Summer and her WOC theater nonprofit has been the #1 cause of my tears of joy hands down, from my first monologue to first book credit to my first onstage performance to my first reading at my favorite bookshop @wordbookstores to a multitude of ripples of dear friends, wonderful opportunities, and magic making over the years. I wrote a damn long blog and some of this stuff is in it hehe. . I'll be talking about my current projects like building a folio for the Unsettling the Wor(l)d writing workshop which was taught by the terrific @dejesussaves and @the_operating_system has graciously offered my classmates and me space to publish. You can read my flash fiction about snow globes that display potential here. And I will add image and video descriptions below soon. Also you can see a time lapse flipthrough of my taste victory goals notebook which I bought from my talented friend @badjonesrising and to which I added a ton of ephemera. The hole puncher is a godsend and the devil's trick to get me to do too much lol ugh . I couldn't omit this sweet message sent by my friend Met. I am at once extremely flattered and terrified to meet such a HEIGHT. Lol idk what to pick haha. Once I read it, I immediately sent them a happy tears selfie lol. And actually I've been wanting to send those kinds of photos to the source which makes me think I might be purer than I thought haha. This isn't even the first time someone called me a pure soul! My friend Bonnie from college told me that. It's just right now I'm on that bridge trying to cross from utter self-loathing to truly loving myself and I'm not sure if I can ever reach considering myself a pure soul...which is probably what a PS would say right? Lol . These flash fictions with flash photography physicals hehe were made during the text and image class at @brooklynpoets with Simone Kearney. I resurrected my bookstagrams @abandonedb2dbc, a public art project, & @booksiheld, literary reviews & pursuits. And the final photo is from this morning's 🌄 on an anarchy house for my walking tour. Hope to see you 🔜 🎙 https://www.instagram.com/p/CI1-LVYAwg2/?igshid=mvt5xgqp6gol
Reverse Pandora
A video of me reading my poem “Reverse Pandora” along with a recording of breaking down its inspiration, my cigar box titled 2012 which contains reminders and mementos of all the things I want to do since that worst, cursed year, post psychosis.
For the Text and Image workshop I took with Simone Kearney at Brooklyn Poets, I wrote a poem titled “Reverse Pandora”. The prompt was to bring an interesting object and write about it in different voices and detailing. I enjoyed writing it and you can see a video of me reciting here: I actually shared my poem at the Brooklyn Poets Fall Workshop Showcase this past Monday and it was really…
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It's been a year and a day since I last abandoned a literary gift for a stranger to find. I had to stop due to Covid-19 but this public art project has always been on my mind. The other day, someone abandoned a mattress right in my neighborhood. I've always wanted to deface one! Is it weird that this finding brings me so much joy? It's been a long time since I felt such excitement. It lights up my eyes whenever I work since it's in full view of my window. The garbage men didn't pick it up which was a huge relief and it rained so I doubt anyone would want it now so I'm going to write directly on it. Honestly, there is no better place in my area to leave behind a set so this feels like a signal from the Universe to restart #abandonedb2dbc . I'm currently obsessed with empty cigar boxes I buy for $2-$5 at tobacco barn. I want to abandon this vibrant purple Super Fly box which will hold The Pillow Book by @jeekohpoet, @grainlitmag fall 2016 #litmag, The Airship Adventures of Little Nemo by Windsor McCay comic strip collection published by @taschen, and @hoaxzine issue 9 on Feminisms and Vulnerabilities. I'll also include @laphamsquart Flesh issue from Fall 2016 & Palimpsest by @catvalente. I'll be throwing in other things too but I'm going to select them as I (re)read these #books. I wanna choose objects that are connected to these works. I also want to write something too, just unsure what it'll be. I know it'll be an experiment. . Ooh maybe a custom experience. Perhaps something they can do in bed? It'll definitely linked with these works. My head is buzzing haha. . I will be sharing excerpts from these books as I read them and any drafts & blueprints. I'm thrilled that I can write for @boredtodeathbookclub again which is the home for this #publicart endeavor. I want to be more diligent and dedicated this time around. I'm also excited cuz Palimpsest was recommended to me during my bibliotherapy session from four years ago with @center4fiction. So bad that it took me this long to finally begin reading any of my prescriptions but maybe this is the right time. . Serendipity like this is rare so I'm not squandering this chance. Sleep well 🛌 https://www.instagram.com/p/CH_33zRhdsg/?igshid=tc51jta6f073
Artist Book Dummy WIP: Fortune Cookie Slips
Artist Book Dummy WIP: Fortune Cookie Slips. A captioned video demonstrating my prototype pocket accordion book plus some thoughts on where I can take it next.
Video of me demonstrating my artist book dummy WIP. It’s a gray pocket accordion book with one instant photo and a fortune cookie slip in each pocket. I’m in a black and dark gray top and navy pants with white polka dots.
I took an introduction to artist book class at the San Francisco Center for the Bookwith Matt Runkle and that was fantastic! I always wanted to make an artist book and I learned…
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(be)longing: #theplaylistdiaries – a collaboration with Flash Thrive
And Into the Darkness, I Shall Follow You
And Into the Darkness, I Shall Follow You
Content warning: psychoses, bipolar, delusions, self-hatred, hallucinations, depression, mental illness, and suicidal ideation
A lot has transpired in between these past two months since I last updated. But instead of doing a recap, I’ll skip ahead to the entry. It’d be too long and unwieldy, and each segment deserves its own post. Hopefully I’ll get to them in due time.
Right now I’m…
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to ignore what I can’t control
City Lights Bookstore’s Antiracist Reading List
Human creativity is integral to revolutionary resistance—the urgent plea, the silenced cry, the righteous rage. It is imperative that we educate and illuminate ourselves to deepen our commitment to justice and equity for Black people and all people of color, and to pave the way for radical systemic change.
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Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Til to Trayvon Martin Edited by Philip Cushway and Michael Warr 9780393352733    Norton  Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? Mumia Abu-Jamal 9780872867383    City Lights Invisible Man Ralph Ellison 9780679732761    Vintage A Black Women’s History of the United States Daina Ramey Berry and Kali N. Gross  9780807033555 Beacon     W.E.B. Dubois’ Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America  The W.E.B. Du Bois Center at the University of Massachusetts   Edited by Britt Rusert and Whitney Battle-Baptiste 9781616897062    Princeton Architectural Press Race Man: Selected Works 1960-2015 Julian Bond Edited by Michael G. Long 9780872867949 City Lights    Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot Mikki Kendall  9780525560548    Viking The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration Isabel Wilkerson 9780679763888    Random House
The Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas Henry Dumas 9781566891493  Coffee House Everywhere You Don’t Belong: A Novel Gabrielle Bump  9781616208790 Algonquin The Meaning of Freedom and Other Difficult Dialogues Angela Y. Davis Foreword by Robin D.G. Kelley 9780872865808  City Lights  Â
No Fascist USA!: The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Movements Hillary Moore and James Tracy Foreword by Robin D.G. Kelley 9780872867963  City Lights The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Michelle Alexander  9781620971932 The New Press Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds adrienne maree brown 9781849352604  AK Black Skin, White Masks Frantz Fanon  Translated from the French by Richard Philcox 9780802143006 Grove The Wretched of the Earth Frantz Fanon Translated from the French by Richard Philcox Commentary by Jean-Paul Sartre and Homi K. Bhabha 9780802141323 Grove Citizen: An American Lyric Claudia Rankine 9781555976903  Graywolf How to Be An Antiracist Ibram X. Kendi 9780525509288  One World The Fire Next Time James Baldwin 9780679744726 Random House No Name in the Street James Baldwin 9780307275929  Vintage How To Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide Crystal Marie Fleming  9780807039847 Beacon The History of White People Nell Irvin Painter 9780393339741  Norton    Heaven Is All Goodbyes: City Lights Pocket Poet Series No. 61 Tongo Eisen-Martin 9780872867451 City Lights Afropessimism Frank WIlderson III 9781631496141   Liveright If They Come in the Morning … : Voices of Resistance Edited by Angela Y. Davis 9781784787691    Verso So You Want to Talk About Race Ijeoma Olua 9781580058827    Seal Troublemaker for Justice: The Story of Bayard Ruskin, the Man Behind the March on Washington Jacqueline Houtman, Walter Naegle, and Michael G. Long 9780872867659    City Lights We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide Carol Anderson with Tonya Bolden Foreword by Nic Stone 9781547602520    Bloomsbury Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You - A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped from the Beginning Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi 9780316453691    Little, Brown Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice Mahogany L. Browne with Elizabeth Acevedo and Olivia Gatwood Illustrated by Theodore Taylor III Foreword by Jason Reynolds 9781250311207    Roaring Brook Betty Before X Ilyasah Shabazz with RenĂ©e Watson 9780374306106    FSG Clifford’s Blues John A. Williams 9781566890809    Coffee House Native Son RIchard Wright 9780061148507 Harper Perennial Training School for Negro Girls Camille Acker 9781936932375    Feminist Press They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays Hanif Abdurraqib 9781937512651    Two Dollar Radio Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption Bryan Stevenson 9780812984965    One World  The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations Toni Morrison 9780525562795    Vintage Oreo Fran Ross 9780811223225    New Directions Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches Audre Lorde Foreword by Cheryl Clarke 9781580911863    Crossing Press Ghost Boys Jewell Parker Rhodes 9780316262262    Little, Brown Monument: Poems New and Selected Natasha Trethewey 9780358118237 MarinerÂ
“I want to thank every single one of you for coming out. This is very important, this is very vital. Black lives have always mattered. We have always been important. We have always meant something. We have always succeeded, regardless. And now is the time. I ain’t waiting! I AIN’T WAITING! I’ve been born in this country. I am 28 years old. Born and raised in London. Every black person understands and realizes the first time you are reminded that you are black. You remember. Every black person in here remembers when another person reminded you that you were black. I need you guys to understand- I need you to understand how painful this shit is. I need you to understand how painful it is to be reminded every day that your race means nothing and that isn’t the case anymore, that is never the case anymore. We’re going to try today. We are a physical representation of our support for George Floyd. We are a physical representation on our support for Sandra Bland. We are a physical representation on our support for Trayvon Martin. We are a physical representation of our support for Stephen Lawrence. For Mark Duggan. It is very very important that we keep control of this movement, and we make it as peaceful as possible. We make this as peaceful and as organized as possible. Because you know what, guys? They want us to mess up. They want us to be disorganized. But not today! NOT TODAY! Not today! This message is specifically for black men: black men, black men we need to take care of our black women. We need to take care of- They are our hearts! THEY ARE OUR HEARTS! They are our future. We cannot demonize our own. We are the pillars of the family. Imagine this, a nation that is set up with individual families that are thriving, that are healthy, that communicate, that raise their children in love have a better rate of becoming better human beings. And that’s what we need to create. Black men, it starts with you. It’s done man, we can’t be trash no more. We have to be better. You don’t understand? I’m speaking to you from my heart. Look, I don’t know if I’m going to have a career after this, but f**k that! Today is about innocent people who were halfway through their process. We don’t know what George Floyd could have achieved, we don’t know what Sandra Bland could have achieved, but today we’re going to make sure that that won’t be an alien thought to our young ones. You lot came today, you left your kids, and when you see your kids they’re aimlessly playing, they don’t understand what’s going on. Today is the day that we remind them that we are dedicated and this is a lifelong dedication. Guys, we don’t leave them stop you now. This is longevity. Some of you are artists, some of you are bankers, some of you are lawyers, some of you own shop stores. You are important, your individual power, your individual right is very, very important. We can all join together to make this a better world.
Thank you for coming out today. Thank you for your support. To us. Black people I love you. I appreciate you. Today is an important day, we are fighting for our rights. We are fighting for our ability to live in freedom. We are fighting for our ability to achieve. We are fighting for equality. And you are the physical representation of that. NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE! Today is the day that we stand. We walk. It’s not about career, it’s not about money, it’s about your right to live as a human being.”
— John Boyega’s full speech during the Black Lives Matter protest at Hyde Park in London, England (June 3, 2020)
God when is art nouveau going to make a comeback.
