#Shayla Lawz

[skamortuus]

Speculation, N. (McSweeney’s 64) - Shayla Lawz

#McSweeney's #Speculation N #Shayla Lawz

[lesbiankirisully]

EYWA BLESSED HER DAUGHTERS WITH THE STARS

Ancestors: day five of @womenofpandoraweek

Toruk: The First Flight, Cirque du Soleil show | Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) | On the Fire That Creates Light, Shayla Lawz | The Nebra Sky Disc, c. 1800-1600 BCE | Cueva de las Manos (Cave of the Hands), c. 7,300 BC-700 AD | Midnight, Dean Koontz

#tsyal avatar #avatar pandora rising #toruk the first flight #atwow #avatar the way of water #kiri sully #jake sully #ralu avatar #entu avatar #avatar 2 #womenofpandoraweek2023 #does this make sense ??? like I don’t have the words this is just like…. reaching for the stars seeing the stars knowing the stars #the stars are in the sky and in the ocean they embrace you until you sleep and surround you until you smile #I don’t know that book I used a quote from I just like that quote lol #lovey posts #no wait I found the words. it’s the ancestor who pointed towards the star in awe and the descendant that has been touched by them personall

[the-fool9]

sometimes i want to ask the earth,

was it beautiful here

without us

or maybe you were lonely too

Shayla Lawz, flight training

[lifeinpoetry]

sometimes i want to ask the earth, was it beautiful          here without us

or maybe you were lonely too

— Shayla Lawz, from “flight training,” speculation, n.

#quote #Shayla Lawz #poetry #speculation n. #out of my collection #flight training

[librarycards]

To write in a poem “I am” or “I lived” or “I awake the next day” or to say it in performance means to create permission and even the will to live it in the body. It means to continue.

Shayla Lawz, Writing Myself Back Into My Body and Into the World.

#words #writing #shayla lawz #mine

[thepoeticbook]

“Sometimes i want to ask the earth, was it beautiful here without us or maybe you were lonely too?”

— Shayla Lawz

#life quotes #poems on tumblr #spilled poetry #tumblr quotes #quotesandphrases #poetry #prose #poem #sad quotes #love poem

[ebookporn]

Writing Myself Back Into My Body and Into the World

We have the right to imagine what is possible beyond the systems that try to destroy us. Black and queer writers have long imagined worlds beyond this one.

By Shayla Lawz

speculation, n.

1. the faculty or power of seeing; vision

I began writing in order to imagine. As a child, I was drawn to stories that existed somewhere between the real world and another realm. Narratives that were speculative—in how they navigated time, space, memory, and even bodies—but that had some kind of stake in the real world, our world. They gave us insight about ourselves and about each other and, through this, some kind of way forward. These were stories that recognized us as people and, in that recognition, imagined what else we could be. This was not just an alternate universe that they were creating. It was, if we believed it to be, a possible future.

As I wrote my own poetry and short stories, I found comfort in the idea of possible futures, changed outcomes, and other modes of being. I created images that were a bridge between this world and the next. Home, in many ways, was unpredictable, and it was in building this bridge that I found safety. In an instant I could imagine myself elsewhere. So, like a wardrobe or magical door, this kind of writing, for me, was a portal. If I put something down on the page, suddenly, it existed. Suddenly, I existed. And this was a kind of door too. I saw this as a way of grappling with reality, a way to create my own conditions for memory. This was not an alternate universe. This was an act of rememory, a different kind of power.

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#writers #writing #queer positivity #speculative fiction #librarians #booksellers #literacy

[lifeinpoetry]

against time against grief against everything that has ever made me impossible

(how does it feel to be this alive?)

— Shayla Lawz, from “my body comes back to me, a blue light,” speculation, n.

#quote #Shayla Lawz #poetry #speculation n. #out of my collection #my body comes back to me a blue light

[lifeinpoetry]

i know we all want to believe that any of us / can survive alone

— Shayla Lawz, from “1967 from Earth,” speculation, n.

#quote #Shayla Lawz #poetry #speculation n. #out of my collection #1967 from Earth

[lifeinpoetry]

& every night i have dreamed of this of claiming my rightful place of coming alive;

you love me because i’m a star now let me go be who i am

— Shayla Lawz, from “1993 from the Stars,” speculation, n.

#quote #Shayla Lawz #poetry #speculation n. #out of my collection #1993 from the Stars