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angelicsaggie · 10 months

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Signal Not Found

Give me a sign

A signal

A rhyme

Anything to pass the time

Because I can’t get you out of my mind

Are you a lead character in my new chapter?

Or are you a filler that will break my heart out of character?

Not another ego death.

I can’t handle that stress.

I just hope we see eye to eye

Because I want you to be mine

But I also don’t

Because I am suffering more than you’d ever know

In fact, maybe it’s best if you leave me alone.

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sunshinewalks · 1 month

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"Gold is the money of Kings" - Norm Franz

#beauty #gold #earn money online #pretty #poetry #shimmering #blacklivesmatter #black women #black tumblr #black beauty #black man #feminism #feminist #beautiful #haiti crisis

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muskaanayesha · 1 year

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Peace be upon the daughter who helped her parents grow up. Accepted their cold shoulder, excused their anger, pardoned their mistakes, taught them how to be human. Peace be upon the sister who paid the price of rebellion. Screaming to her fullest, shaking like a leaf but standing tall, never letting the dictatorship go without a fight, paving the path for her siblings to breathe easier. Peace be upon the first child of an immigrant father. Aching to find their own purpose in life, firm in their own beliefs, contradicting generations and generations of cultural values. Peace be upon the girl who shouldered her mother's trauma. Swindled it into her own, morphed herself into an image of the womb she once resided in, immersed herself into troubles that weren't even hers, covered up scars that she couldn't even recognize. Peace be upon the woman who forgot who she was. So determined to be the savior of everyone, to fix her family, to nurture and love everyone around her. So deeply lost that she forgot she's just as worthy of love. Peace be upon you.

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moondusttown · 1 year

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modestaesthetics · 6 months

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#melanin #pretty #blackgirlmagic #womens fashion #black woman #beautiful skin #poetry #melanin poppin #african beauty #modest #modesty #head wrap #black queen #beautiful women #black fashion #ebony #chocolate #brown skin

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thtgirlsmind · 1 month

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Instagram: @thtgirlsmind

#thtgirlsmind #melanin #poetry #artists on tumblr #black #black women #photographer #photography #black girl magic #aesethic #silver #behind the scenes

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honeyknome · 1 year

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That’s the way love goes

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diana-andraste · 3 months

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A Word Made Flesh, Lesley Dill, 1994

Dill has said, “I think of words, and especially the poems of Emily Dickinson, for their embodiment of psychological states of despair and euphoria as metaphors for being, as a kind of spiritual armor, and intervening skin between ourselves and the world.”

A Word Made Flesh, a series of four mixed-process prints literally transcribes the words of Dickinson onto a woman’s body. While the text is legible in Back and Throat, Dill has manipulated the language within the ghostly composition of Front to the point where only select phrases are visible: “ghastly” over the woman’s chest and “cares” (short for caress) over her stomach for example. In this series, word and image merge with forceful, yet disturbingly vulnerable, effect.

#art #lesley dill #a word made flesh #black and white #1990s #women #emily dickinson #body art #the body #language #poetry

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iamneosoul · 7 days

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Not too hot i hope

#black women #neo soul #art #writers and poets #love poetry #poet thoughts #poetic #poetscommunity #blues #poetry #black tumblr #black beauty #black girl beauty #blondie #black girl moodboard #black girls are beautiful

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cocoabuttavasa · 8 months

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soul connections only 🫀

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kumsal-thingss · 6 months

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Sanmak insanı ziyan eder.

Konu ne olursa olsun...

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nandi4everokay · 3 months

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uwmspeccoll · 2 months

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International Women's Day

In celebration of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day (March 8), we’re showcasing one of writer, educator, intersectional feminist, poet, civil rights activist, and former New York public school librarian Audre Lorde’s (1934–1992) early collections of poetry. From a Land Where Other People Live was published in 1973 by Detroit’s groundbreaking Broadside Press. This independent press was founded in 1965 by poet, University of Detroit librarian, and Detroit’s first poet laureate Dudley Randall (1914-2000) with the mission to publish the leading African American poetry of the time in a well-designed format that was also "accessible to the widest possible audience." A comprehensive catalog of Broadside Press’s impressive roster of artists (including Gwendolyn Brooks, Nikki Giovanni, and Alice Walker, to name a few), titled Broadside Authors and Artists: An Illustrated Biographical Directory, was published in 1974 by educator and fellow University of Detroit librarian Leaonead Pack Drain-Bailey (1906-1983).

Lorde described herself in an interview with Callaloo Literary Journal in 1990 as “a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, warrior, poet, mother doing [her] work”. She dedicated her life to “confronting and addressing injustices of racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia.” From a Land Where Other People Live is a powerfully intimate expression of her personal struggles with identity and her deeply rooted critiques of social injustice. The work was nominated for the National Book Award for poetry in 1974, the same year that Broadside Press published New York Head Shop and Museum, another volume of Lorde’s poetry featured in our collection. You can find more information on her writings and on the organization inspired by her life and work by visiting The Audre Lorde Project.

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-- Ana, Special Collections Graduate Fieldworker

#Women’s History Month #International Women’s Day #Audre Lorde #Broadside Press #Dudley Randall #Detroit #Poetry #From a Land Where Other People Live #Independent presses #Feminist writers #Lesbian writers #Black writers #women writers #women poets #Ana

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littlemistressblog · 7 months

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