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Joey De Jesus

Gender: Non binary (they/them)

Sexuality: Queer

DOB: N/A

Ethnicity: Puerto Rican

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer, poet, activist, political candidate (Democrat), professor

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is mine an evil heart?

— Joey de Jesus, from "Ancha (Redux)," published in Roadmap

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For the second consecutive spring semester, I had the opportunity to teach as a(n) (Adjunct) Lecturer, my class “Abolitionist Poetics” at Barnard College. As the administration deteriorated conditions for learning on campus with extreme surveillance and violent, police-enforced shutdowns of urgent student actions to denounce genocide in Gaza, many in our class decided to come together to compose…

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artwork by Yoshitaka Amano

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Gordon Parks, Watering Hole, Fort Scott, Kansas, 1963

archival pigment print, 24 x 20 inches (print), edition 1 of 7, with 2 APs (© the Gordon Parks Foundation, image courtesy the Gordon Parks Foundation and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York)

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Lyle Ashton Harris. “untitled (Lyle and Robert, Bronx, New York, circa mid 1980s)”

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When I first saw this Lyle Ashton Harris photograph two years ago, I knew I would write a poem about it. Here it is, one of six in the current issue of The Sewanee Review.

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by juan arata

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Me before watching ep 26: Haha I love the little rock golem Freiren creates they're so cute.

Me watching ep 26: IS THAT A MOTHERFUCKING BLACK HOLE??????

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"We've Learned to Call This Normal" (Repost)

I was solicited in 2016 to compose my reaction to and observations of the state vigil for the victims of the Pulse massacre for Paper Magazine outside the Stonewall Inn, featuring fascist NYPD hellmouth Bill Bratton. For whatever reason, sometime in the past few months the article was removed and my requests ascertaining why ignored. So I am reposting the piece here, unedited. Several sentiments…

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HOAX / DECK, SCROLL, MAP

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PROMESA: An Essay on Blackout Poetics

Image Description: A large wooden door in Viejo San Juan painted Black and White in the likeness of the Puerto Rican Flag, a star is nailed to the top of the doorway. For many Puerto Ricans, the Black Flag has become an image of revolution, decolonization and independence. The image features figures of everyday people stenciled on crumbling white façade over brick depict. Graffiti in the lower…

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“We Animate the Dream”: A Poet’s Run for Public Office

Credit: Mohammed Fayaz: MoJuicy (Description: an almost-cartoonist illustration of seven friends of different ethnicity and complexion posed in colorful clothing in loving embrace and posing together as if for a photo. They wear their hair in buns, one in braids, another has their afro out, wearing coveralls, one friend covers her hair in religious observance. Bold green text reads “Joey De Jesus…