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	<title>Black Looks &#187; Poetry</title>
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		<title>The Oh My God farce!</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/02/the-oh-my-god-farce-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:36:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mia Nikasimo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Queer Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The house in the middle of our street is open again&#8230; Why are the windows so wide open? Been round back? Why? What&#8217;s happened round back? Tell what, Gems? We were hanging out on our veranda trying to see trying What were you trying to see? Happened round back? What? What happened? Laughter, suspense, alright! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Felt Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 16:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mia Nikasimo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t do that in the name of helping me You felt me up felt me up felt me up felt That was the first time you felt me up As I looked on you felt my upper arm up Again! What happened to my boundaries? Again! That was the second time again How would you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Needing This Revolution</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/needing-this-revolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emmanuel Iduma</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Movements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uprisings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fuel Subsidy Nigeria]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[OccupyNigeria]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“La résistance est une forme de collaboration” – Albert Camus There are no groupings in my head. I am not being spoken for. No one will speak for me if I do not speak for myself. Tell this to those who have formed groups and begotten labels in my name: I will join you if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nothing</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/12/nothing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 14:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mia Nikasimo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=8585</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nothing happens for nothing happens for nothing happens Nothing happens for nothing happens for nothing happens The call came. My phone registered the dread again &#038; again The dread again and nothing happens for nothing happens. My heart lodged in my searching. What to say now, what? &#8221; You called me a murderer, you called [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nature aint rigid</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/11/nature-aint-rigid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:36:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mia Nikasimo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cis-Gender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gender identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queer Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transgender]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=8519</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Spanning the world From Africa to Asia; From Europe to utopit Anywhere you go In gender identity There are no absolutes In gender identity There are only relatives Forcing absolutes Upsets the balance Of nature &#8211; relativity Brings equilibrium this is&#8230; Its natural from birth i was told Botherwise; only aged three or four Frontier [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mam?</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/10/mam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 11:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mia Nikasimo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Black Feminism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queer Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;racism, classism, transphobia, homophobia and the internalised dimensions which perpetuates the &#8220;order of things&#8221;" Either someone is feeding Dwayne Ameboman Information or he hadn&#8217;t gone out all day today? &#8220;Isn&#8217;t it my right to choose?&#8221; said Tanya Sea Warrior. Defiantly she continued, &#8220;it is, isn&#8217;t it my right to Choosing whether service providers called me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jean Binta Breeze &#8211; for the women who didn&#8217;t make it</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/10/jean-binta-breeze-aid-travels-with-a-bomb/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/10/jean-binta-breeze-aid-travels-with-a-bomb/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 20:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Action Alert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caribbean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consciousness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dub Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jamaica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jean Binta Breeze]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Militarism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Womanhood]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; Jamaican British dub poet Jean Binta Breeze &#8211;  from &#8220;The THIRD WORLD GIRL: SELECTED POEMS&#8221;, a book with DVD published by Bloodaxe Books &#160; Via Travelling Light]]></description>
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		<title>Isolation</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/10/isolation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:46:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mia Nikasimo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transgender]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Queer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transexual]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=8482</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As in isolation, imprisonment by proxy, intimidation, Harassment, daily chatter about how much tax is Siphooned off, sitting around, lazing around, aground As on run aground off the back of a Tsunami, living in; Isolated then, living in, working out my next move, work? Writing is work. Overtaken by cissexual animosities voiced Rolled out when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sane Sex Mentality [4] &#8211; a response to the Nigerian SGMB 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/10/sane-sex-mentality-4/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/10/sane-sex-mentality-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mia Nikasimo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LGBTIQ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Same Sex Marriage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is the last in the series of poems in response to the Nigeria Same Gender Marriage Bill 2011 Putting food on the table was his role now it&#8217;s anyone&#8217;s Sane sex mentality; lure me close with seductive smile Sane sex mentality; watch me as I smile back, friendly A feral pack explodes again loud [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sane Sex Mentality [3]</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/10/sane-sex-mentality-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 11:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mia Nikasimo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LGBTIQ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Same Sex Marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria Same Sex Marriage Bill]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A bill built on spurious lies cosied up to the old world order Funny that, bearing in mind the fact that, this is a hold up Laughter always fails me just about now: 2011, stitched up This is what persecution felt like for a cornered atypical gal This could small town anywhere but it isn&#8217;t; [...]]]></description>
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