#eveewing

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what I mean when I say I'm sharpening my oyster knife

by eve l. ewing

I mean I'm here to eat up all the ocean you thought was yours. I mean I brought my own quarter of a lemon, tart and full of seeds. I mean I'm a tart. I'm a bad seed. I'm a red-handled thing and if you move your eyes from me I'll cut the tender place where your fingers meet. I mean I never met a dish of horseradish I didn't like. I mean you're a twisted and ugly root and I'm the pungent, stinging firmness inside. I mean I look so good in this hat with a feather and I'm a feather and I'm the heaviest featherweight you know. I mean you can't spell anything I talk about with that sorry alphabet you have left over from yesterday. I mean when I see something dull and uneven, barnacled and ruined, I know how to get to its iridescent everything. I mean I eat them alive. what I mean is I'll eat you alive, slipping the blade in sideways, cutting nothing because the space was always there.

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"No, I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife." –Zora Neale Hurston

via poetry society.org

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[briannamccarthy]

giving thanks for a year of firsts 🌟 The Lifetime movie #lovebythe10thdate premiered in January and featured my work all up in it (Massive love to director @nzingbling for believing in my work for this project!), my first US based solo exhibition opened in June at @viragogallery in Seattle (incredible love to Tracy for welcoming me into her space and to @iamrezina for spearheading the publication of the Matters of Inheritance collectors book which featured writings from phenomenal women of colour). Give thanks for the doors opened ♡ I collaborated with Scotiabank Trinidad and Tobago for their Women Against Breast Cancer 5K - a huge honour. I got to see my work as the face of the Festival International de Film Insulaire du Groix in Brittany, France. A Vetiver Night Woman is on the cover of Eve Ewing's stellar collection Electric Arches. And so many other things I didn't think I'd ever do. I'm not sure I know how to feel. But I do feel overwhelmingly humbled and grateful. It's been a sobering year for so many reasons - a year or revelation and refined clarity. Thank you to the people who stood by me, believed in me, encouraged me - blessings and light to you! Looking forward! . . . . #eveEwing #lovebythe10thdate #mattersofinheritance #shawnthwaites #vetivernightwomen #fifig #everystrideempowers #ElectricArches

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[yasbxxgie]

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[natiosbaker]

This line by @eve.ewing, from her book 1919, spoke to me as an allusion to Carl Sandberg, as a reworking of the Chicago motto, as an ode to the prairie, as a celebration of the people’s history, and in researching and understanding the 1919 riots and of the current protests across the country. It felt like a good place to start as my submission for the upcoming show- Paper Signs of the Times by @electro_pepper and @heartandbonesigns. With support from @iunschoolofthearts @paintgaryindiana the show will be held @lubeznikcenterforthearts. Proceeds from the show will go to support the Black Lives Matter movement and youth arts programs in Gary, IN. #blacklivesmatter #eveewing #signpainting #alwayshandpaint #papersignsofthetimes #papersigns #signwriters #protestsigns #signsofthetimes #oneshotpaint #type #chicago #handlettering (at Chicago, Illinois) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEsBfGxpACb/?igshid=chs81ipvn0vx

[sistazai]

Each one must teach one. Learning about 1619 and 1919 from those who know. Connecting the dots to 2019. Always a student. Always curious. Stay free. @maximemississippinoire and #drdenisechapman #eveewing #poetry #spokenword #panafrican #Africandiaspora #Blackliterature #BlackAfrican #BlackAmerican https://www.instagram.com/p/B1y9i9TAIcg/?igshid=jnikisopemfo