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Rudy Francisco - I once held onto a grudge

Post your favorite quote!

Get Rudy's book here: https://bit.ly/rudyfranciscoshop Rudy Francisco, performing at Queen Bee's Art and Cultural Center in San Diego, CA.

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We're baaaaaack! 👋

Enjoy this video from Final Stage of the Women of the World Poetry slam last month in Baltimore, MD.

Hosted by the inimitable Black Arts District.

Tell us your favorite line! Tell us how you have been Tumblr! We've missed you!!

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February 2020 marks our 8-year anniversary with Tumblr. 

This is where it all started for Button and we can't thank you enough for the support.

This is also good-bye. For now. We're pulling the plug on Tumblr and headed back to the lab. 

Catch you on the flip side folks!

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I have long since forgiven your lies. I have long since forgiven my body for failing, for breaking. Maybe forgiveness is transitive.

Jared Singer, from Forgive Yourself These Tiny Acts of Self-Destruction

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I wake and I am a burning mahogany. And what I mean is there are days I am engulfed. Other mornings I wake and I am most like the horizon.

Porsha Olayiwola, from i shimmer sometimes, too

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If you break her heart, I will hear it snap with the ear I pressed against her mother’s belly.

Jesse Parent, “To the Boys Who May One Day Date My Daughter”

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They say the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. There is no proverb about the way to a woman’s heart. The way into her is more important.

Jenesis Fonseca, “The Way to a Woman’s Heart” (CUPSI 2014) 

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My thighs say: We don’t want your praise, man on the street corner… man in the parking garage… man in Walgreens while we’re buying tampons…

Desireé Dallagiacomo, “Thighs” (WOWPS 2014)

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You, big lady, were the only Disney character who ever looked like me. And while you may not have had the waistline of a princess, I’ll be goddamned if you didn’t have the swagger of a queen.

Melissa May, “Dear Ursula” (WoWPS 2014) 

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If I came to you, lonely as a grocery store parking lot at 5 am, blowing smoke rings but pretending they are halos, could you believe in the magic?

Sabrina Benaim, from Depression & Other Magic Tricks

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The first time I saw her, everything in my head went quiet.

Neil Hilborn, from Our Numbered Days 

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I know you can’t break me half as hard as I deserve to be broken. Every injury just another opportunity to learn to love this body.

Jared Singer, from Forgive Yourself These Tiny Acts of Self-Destruction

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I wake and I am a burning mahogany. And what I mean is there are days I am engulfed. Other mornings I wake and I am most like the horizon.

Porsha Olayiwola, from i shimmer sometimes, too

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I have long since forgiven your lies. I have long since forgiven my body for failing, for breaking. Maybe forgiveness is transitive.

Jared Singer, from Forgive Yourself These Tiny Acts of Self-Destruction

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Don’t know what it is to get lost in someone and not lose yourself.

Porsha Olayiwola, from i shimmer sometimes, too

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Love is a sandwich. Both are silly little things that we created. We put both in our mouths.

Jared Singer, from Forgive Yourself These Tiny Acts of Self-Destruction

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I wish you unlocked doors // meals prepared side by side // I wish you concerts under stars // with someone you love.

Porsha Olayiwola, from i shimmer sometimes, too

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