By N. Gitanjali Lena
Guess I’m finally ready to give up the:
easy pass thru customs
psychic violence
buffer in small white towns
complimentary Italian gauze
flying under security guard radar
benefit of the doubt
stealing me shit at self-checkouts
your family’s Netflix account
public safety
fragility
greedy white queers
code switching
oxblood leather collar
Dean Spade’s Mutual Aid
access to swift housing for my bipoc friends
promises shower of pineapple hummingbird gifts u can’t give yourself collective (dis)ease
tiny timid nuclear families
excuses
decolonial kink in theory
shelves of bipoc poetry
gf sweets languishing in my fridge
abolitionist aesthetics
complacency
sunburns
easy tears
giggles & feverish smoking
born in kkkanada lineages
therapy language
Ryan’s Hawaii
sous chef onions
fear of strangers
silk-screening
10 of Swords
adoration
depoliticized poly guides
losing strategies
For:
ride or die loyalty
huge extended blended queer chosen families
internalized racism
diabetes
screaming ancestors
melanin
courage in uncertainty
unrelenting immigrant standards
blood that knows no boundaries
bipoc tantric fetish nights
sick dance routines
Haiti 1804
toe sucking - skin licking
scented curly hair products
gold leather harness
ambition
the Hawaiians who killed Cook
smooth dark asses
firm boundaried bottoming
apologies
Sheku Kanneh-Mason in my earbuds
nosy communities
dry crying crying with onions crying in the shower
saltwater tropics
blonde hair black roots
minimal free time
collective material struggle
learning my own languages (again)
faith & spiritual traditions
non-veg anti-caste actions
rampant chronic pain
showing up for your friends
diy teas, balms & oils
neighbourhood safety networks
witchcraft & curses
queer friends journeying to our homelands
black & brown western confused sangha
intentional break ups
sweating & crying together in the streets and sheets for our liberation
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