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To New Beginnings
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Pride: A Retrospective
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Women’s History Month
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Black Condition ft Narcissus by jayy dodd
Synopses & Reviews Synopsis The Black Condition ft. Narcissus is preemptive memoir, documenting the beginning of the author's gender transition and paralleling the inauguration of our latest Administration. These poems speak to and from fears holed up inside while contextualizing the cosmic impacts of our political landscape. Ranging from autobiographic melancholy to rigorously meditative, here is a necessary voice to process the world, predicated on unknowable desire and blossoming tragedy.
#sundayread for October 11, 2020
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Introducing NYPL's Best Books of 2019
The New York Public Library is proud to announce its Best Books of 2019, our annual recommendations for kids, teens, and adults which are curated by NYPL's expert librarians. This list celebrates the diversity of stories, authors, styles, and genres published in 2019. From literary fiction to fantasy, picture books to poetry, nonfiction to graphic novels, readers of all kinds and all ages will find books that inspire, engage, and surprise them.
Why I’m Scared Of White Women
By Jayy Dodd White women have weaponized their fear, and Black men suffer for it. Living most of my life as a Black boy, raised by Black women, I was instilled with an appreciation and respect for women. I was never taught there was something a woman could not do, nor was there anything I should not be expected to do as a boy. Gender equality never felt like a hard thing to wrap my head around.
Paper As Body | The Offing
Wura-Natasha Ogunji is a visual artist and performer. Her works include drawings, videos, and public performances. Her hand-stitched drawings, made on architectural trace paper, reference the daily interactions and frequencies that occur in the city of Lagos. ruby onyinyechi amanze is a visual artist whose practice is primarily centered around drawing and works on paper.
Reclaimancy #19 [or, The Snake Angulating Out]
I’m allegedly always the last to know bad news. My grandmother & sister take turns telling me about myself. Both would end the world for me. A need for superheroes ended when I began donning my own cape & mask. I’m a single-bound leap from each woman in my blood. They all claim my body but each calls a different name for what lives around the arteries. I worry women in my family still hold me in the fragility of boyhood I grew gloriously.
Trans Issue
An Introduction to The Offing's Trans Issue 2015
The Offing's Trans Issue 2015
Because now, suddenly, I exist in the imagination of the world. Not just as a ghost, but as a human being with a point of reference. If we are to truly speak to, from, and about the margins, to which voices are we to tune our ears? The last two years have given long overdue visibility to trans / non-binary realities, pushing us to re-imagine what centering the margins truly means.
Best Books
The New York Public Library is thrilled to announce our Best Books of 2019, featuring a curated selection of recommended reads for kids, teens, and adults selected by our expert librarians. The lists contain books spanning an array of genres, but all feature compelling characters, diverse stories, and inspiring ideas. Whether you're in search of picture books or YA novels, page-turners or love stories, you're sure to find a title that will delight or surprise you.
Why White Women Terrify Me
Originally published on The Establishment and republished here with their permission. Close up portrait of a person with a serious expression. (Content Note: mentions of race-based violence, outing) Living most of my life as a Black boy, raised by Black women, I was instilled with an appreciation and respect for women. I was never taught there was something a woman could not do, nor was there anything I shouldn’t be expected to do as a boy.
Jayy Dodd, Author at The Establishment
jayy dodd is a writer, editor, and artist from Los Angeles, now based in a Detroit. Their work has been featured in Huffington Post, Guernica, Preludes, Lamda Literary, Blavity, and more. They are the author of Mannish Tongues, forthcoming from Platypus Press in February 2017. *** If I could eradicate one societal ill, it would be white people doing Black social dances. When I’m alone, I like to binge watch American Idol compilation videos while I paint my nails and draft poems..
Why I'm Scared Of White Women - The Establishment
Living most of my life as a Black boy, raised by Black women, I was instilled with an appreciation and respect for women. I was never taught there was something a woman could not do, nor was there anything I should not be expected to do as a boy. Gender equality never felt like a hard thing to wrap my head around. But in the popular conversation, gender equality and feminism are so geared toward white sensibilities that people like me are not only marginalized as allies, but actively endangered.
Why I’m Scared Of White Women – The Establishment
Living most of my life as a Black boy, raised by Black women, I was instilled with an appreciation and respect for women. I was never taught there was something a woman could not do, nor was there anything I should not be expected to do as a boy. Gender equality never felt like a hard thing to wrap my head around. But in the popular conversation, gender equality and feminism are so geared toward white sensibilities that people like me are not only marginalized as allies, but actively endangered.
Hyel’s Zumbi by jayy dodd
Left for dead by the god of garbled messages: The worm say he was to hang, being the first soul to leave the body. Call his neck plum, when it bruises say the skin makes it easy to digest. His stomach—taut and broad, to be carved out. Call him vessel, passage. The sea allows him, makes abduction: funeral and birth. He is compromise of rotting, an acceptable loss. Weighed in knot and gasp of air. The lizard say he was to be buried, being the first soul to leave the body.
FYI: Sidney Poitier Was an Accomplished Director, Too
The first black man to win an Oscar, Sidney Poitier is best known for his work in front of the camera. (In 1967 alone, he starred in the iconic hits Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, In the Heat of the Night and To Sir With Love). But his work behind the camera, now all but forgotten, also deserves its fair share of praise. The movies below are four of his most noteworthy movies as a director. 1.
Call for Submissions By Black Writers
This February, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Cave Canem and to recognize the 40th anniversary of the national observance of Black History Month, The Offing will spotlight work by Black writers in all departments.
Take Your Coffee Black
(to the poet, before whiteboys): 1. He will comment on your skin, the first night. Will say how soft and smooth it is, that it is like nothing of this earth. He will feel you unidentified and extraterrestrial. You are. You are. 2. He will ask you about your lips. Your hair. If you know that one song he can’t say all the lyrics to, because no one should really say that word. You will convince yourself he’s right. He’s wrong. 3. His friends will check if you are a real boy.
The Black Artist: A Chronology
Black Arts Movement contributors. Left to right, top to bottom: [Unidentified], Ishmael Reed, Jayne Cortez, Léon-Gontran Damas, Romare Bearden, Larry Neal, Nikki Giovanni and Evelyn Neal. Courtesy Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library. You may write me down in history / With your bitter, twisted lies / You may trod me in the very dirt / But still, like dust, I’ll rise.
Black Skin, White Frat
Ceramic red cup © Andrey Shipilov In a heated argument, one Thursday night when Brothers had gathered to hang out over unspeakable amounts of alcohol, a white boy (and Brother) of mine declared: “But none of that shit matters here man, you’re a Brother now.” That shit being one of four Black men in the fraternity. Being a quantifiable anomaly in collegiate landscape that was my Brotherhood. Being Black bodied in White lineage.
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