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	<title>Black Looks &#187; Poetry</title>
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		<title>ABEYANCE</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/05/abeyance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 23:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald Molosi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[flowers of the season smile open in the summer rays and spray wild perfume, sweetening the morning air – a lazy breeze on my balcony. i open my eyes. i yawn. blink. the ceiling is blank white. the breeze is so listless, the delhi heat is already curling around my neck licking my skin wet. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Have you finished?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 17:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mia Nikasimo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Queer Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Have You Finished? &#160; Steam rolled daily in a this daily roller coaster called life Not because of the natural essence of life, worthwhile&#8230; Not because of the appeasing plea unique enlightenment Not because of reproductive need, procreative futures Because the cultural  on you demand it? Is that all this is? Well, guess what? I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Setting the future in motion &#8211;</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/02/setting-the-future-in-motion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Botswana]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Emmanuel Iduma]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wonderful to see these two inspiring young Africans engaging with each other on &#8220;the art of creating&#8220;.  With Emmanuel, Donald and other artists like them, our future is set in motion &#160; EMMANUEL IDUMA: Is there some sense in thinking that being an artist cannot mean being just one thing? That creativity transcends technique or form? [...]]]></description>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa LGBTI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/felt-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 16:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mia Nikasimo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queer Politics]]></category>

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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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emmanuel Iduma</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Movements]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fuel Subsidy Nigeria]]></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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Consciousness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dub Poetry]]></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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