What Do I Get For Getting Old? [A beautiful poem by Alice Walker on the joys and freedom of getting old - I followed instructions and supplied my own photo - see Alice Walker's photo here] A Picture Story For The Curious ©2011 by Alice Walker (You supply the pictures.) I get to meditate [...]
Lugardia kept us in limbo Shackling us with sex in Our see thru straitjackets “You will marry the man We choose for you,” said My frantic father followed By my mousey mother all Silent, all compliant as Ordained by masters of old. Lugardia for [...]
For my parents “Come Away My Love” by Joseph Kariuki Come away my love, from streets Where unkind eyes divide And shop windows reflect our difference In the shelter of my faithful room rest There, safe from opinions, being behind Myself, I can see only you; And in my dark eyes your grey Will dissolve. [...]
From Bernedette Muthien gendercide it took a full week of straitjacketing generations of genocidal femicidal trauma for the clay dam wall to explode and flood me in torrents of collective grief a poet with no words a lifelong activist struck dumb i choke on love for the dead thousands of beautiful women and children a year [...]
I recently met with Ernest Gaubert of KOURAJ Ayiti which is a grassroots organization with … [Read More...]
From Inkanyiso - Greeted with an everlasting smile by a body that doesn’t seem to age, Phumla Rose … [Read More...]
On the morning of Dec. 11, 2007, Anthony Adero decided to leave his hometown forever and head to the … [Read More...]
Proudly African & Transgender: Portraits by Gabrielle Le Roux in collaboration with Trans & Intersex activists
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