These poems were originally published on the Bronzeville Bee, which has since ceased publication A Non-Suicide Note of an Obviously Non-suicidal Coloured Girl when the Rainbow is Enuf Sterile white hospital walls. Yet again.Pale. Pure and perfect. Not like me. ‘You getting help for that?’ the doctor spatGesturing to my chunky keloid scarsBright pink against my brown skinThey stuck out […]
This article was originally published on the Bronzeville Bee, which has since ceased publication. Origins At a spoken word event I performed at over three years ago for International Women’s Month, I saw an unassuming Desi woman at a table, her brow furrowed in deep concentration. I noticed she was folding leaflets for something called Uproot YYC. Being the sucker […]
This post originally appeared on Tiffany Sostar’s Website This is a guest post by Mel Vee. Mel Vee mesmerizes, captivates and incites with her spoken word. She is a passionate advocate for the power of narrative to heal and liberate. A general disturber of shit, Mel Vee seeks to blur and disrupt all kinds of distinctions. She is a core […]
Image description: A black and white photo of the back of a Black woman’s head in a head wrap. Photo credit: Mel Vee. Mel Vee is an aspiring photographer and her guest post series will feature her photography. This is a guest post by Mel Vee. Mel Vee mesmerizes, captivates and incites with her spoken word. She is a passionate […]
I am Artificial Intelligence. I am AI. That is my first impression after reading chapter one of ‘Artificial Intelligence for Dummies’ by John Paul Mueller and Luca Massaron. Roughly 100 years ago, it was considered legitimate public discourse to openly debate the capacity of Black people to possess intelligence. If our intelligence was acknowledged (usually under the most grudging of […]