by Carlos Campos Jr
“All now forgotten, all abandoned.”
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The City
Category: Poetry
by Carlos Campos Jr
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A Smile without a Shield
by Jazzib Akhtar
“There’s something about experiencing racism in real time, it often comes at times when you don’t expect it.
What is it about 12 weaponizing everything?”
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Until
By 3 Black Women Rice Students
“until that original system of oppression upon which the police force is built is completely dismantled, it’s fuck 12”
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Momma
By Jacob Allen
“All I got left is this art”
by Jazzib Akhtar
“Defeated an empire only to return to a different empire.”
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Black Hair Ghazal
by Aris Kian
“knots, cornrows, two-strand flat twists and drips between my legs, i’m taught to keep my girlhood”
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Brown Protagonist
by Aris Kian
“I am penned as dust and dawn, as sunlight
and pink horizon, mixing cement”
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Circus Act
by Aris Kian
“Black girl be the best assistant / with how she falls / victim to a show / she never asked to be inspotlight
spotlight”
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Code Switch
by Aris Kian
“furling, sucking air into his chest, & I thought, ‘that! that is the language I want for myself.'”
