malcolm x
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Flora and FaunaI wanted to bless my eyes this morningwith flora and faunaso I came in from the coldof a dream full of unrelenting rainand opened my eyes to what is customarilymy second sighting of the day:My ideological fathershot down in the Audubon ballroomwhere the only bird observed in motionwas the misappropriated eagleuntil the phoenix…
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Flora and Fauna I wanted to bless my eyes this morning with flora and fauna so I came in from the cold of a dream full of unrelenting rain and opened my eyes to what is customarily my second sighting of the day: My ideological father shot down in the Audubon ballroom where the only…
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Twelve years ago, before I was a Mother myself, I gave my Mom a copy of Mothers of the Revolution. Reading the subheading of the book: The War Experiences of Zimbabwean women, she thought it was going to be the war experiences of gun-toting nappy-haired women who don’t hesitate to shoot upon seeing the white…
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For Women and the Nation: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti of Nigeria: I’ve started reading this already but have been interrupted by other reading interludes: A Thousand Splendid Suns; Something Torn and New; I, Alex Cross; The Epic of Askia Mohammed; Our Sister Killjoy. I’ll be discussing some of them in later posts as they do fit the…
Tichaona Chinyelu 