Tagged: racial justice
perhaps justice is
perhaps justice is
performative, waiting for
a primed audience
.
20210420:2132
y
to acknowledge that
to acknowledge that
power was extracted is
the beginning of
a reckoning, a decision
to be held accountable
.
20210311:1951
y
we can’t imagine
we can’t imagine
going back – as the color
starts to fade on those
particular memories, we
realize we’ve been lost all this time
.
20200721:2115
y
what are we letting
what are we letting
go of in this moment, this
year, this lifetime – what
are we keeping, what are we
hoping to create together?
.
20200702:2148
y
perhaps shaken, not
perhaps shaken, not
stirred is the epitome of
privilege – the difference
between taking a moment to
recalibrate and action
.
20200606:1223
y
in our moment of
in our moment of
silence, we
cannot fathom
the length
of injustice
.
20200604:2117
y
if we altogether
if we altogether
fix our gaze
towards life, liberty,
and the pursuit of
happiness,
we won’t have
to squint
.
20200603:2310
y
christmas morning, you
christmas morning, you
are reading to me a new
old book, 1963,
james baldwin.
wait, go back, i say,
and we read again,
out loud, and i reread
the passage to
myself, stuck
in strands of time and
the historical now, and
i have no right to the
sudden lump in my
throat, so i don’t
ask if you too are
struggling, not
together, but
separately, to
make sense of it,
the meaning behind the
words behind
the words.
we pause
here until some
unforeseeable spring,
promise to pick it up
right where we left off,
while secretly
stealing the solitude,
the hours and
years of nakedness,
required to face
the fire next time
.
20170126:0000
y
y 