Our Blog Posts
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The Ritual
(modern, meditative, drag/makeup/spiritual glam tone) By Mary Mba, Ph.D. I sharpen my face with light. Draw bone from shadow. Lips from silence. Gender from powder. This is not hiding. This is revelation. Each line I blend resurrects someone I have always been but never been allowed to be. I become a woman— not by birthright,…
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My Ethiopian Brother
(For Abera) He came quietly, not like thunder but like spring rain. One moment we were strangers at the African Student Association meeting, the next— he was on the floor building towers of blocks with my children, laughing like he’d known them forever. He never asked if I needed help. He simply showed up. When…
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She Left Me Light
(For Christina Lux) Some friendships begin in language— ours did. French syllables, colonial histories, shared passions for voices that had survived the fracture of empire. She met me not just as a colleague, but as a guide. A quiet cartographer mapping the places where my mind had not yet dared to go. When I struggled,…