Anything black, queer, funk, foul, bright, woman, not-woman, not-not brown, yellow, white, fake, false, cruel, straight, permed, natural, skinny, sexy, sleazy, dead. Any body without invasion. Any voice without erasure.
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And I say to thee, race is discursive not visual-biological. So, I got a perm today.
Begin shpeil » » » I’ve been changing my appearance frequently and radically throughout my post-adolescent career as a ferocious asshole. The fact that I haven’t at…
Born and raised in New Orleans, Rickey Laurentiis is a poet and studies in New York. MY OWN SYNTAX is his blog of poetics and politics, and is dedicated to James Baldwin and Alvin Ailey. Ask him your question here or visit his literary project, CAYENNE, here.
