dasha

dark-haloed sister, penumbric jewel

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Whale Bones

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Mary Lovelace O'Neal, Lampblack

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you can’t half love a whole woman

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[paidcrisisactor]

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to return to the altar and sit with the stoic faces of my ancestors, whose hope still rests in their eyes, is to understand that i come from a long corridor of ‘almost’.

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Ethiopia, 1998. Günther Helm

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akinsanya kambon, yemoja (carrying spirits we lost through the middle passage), 2010.

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“i wanted to write about silences and terror acts that hover over generations, over centuries. i began by writing about my mother and my grandmother.”

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went to a lester horton workshop & wrote haikus listenin’ to joe mcphee

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Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Espejo Negro (Maudelle Bass Weston), 1947.

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