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Aurielle Marie is a Black, Atlanta-born, Queer hip-hop scholar and a cultural worker. Through her work as a poet and an activist, she explores the uses of intimacy and ritual in the practice of Black resistance. Aurielle is a 2017 Roddenberry Fellowship Finalist, a Voices of Our Nation Fellow-Alum, a 2016 Kopkind Fellow, and a current Queer Emerging Artist-In-Residence at Destiny Art Center. Both her activism and artistry ground themselves in the afro-indigenous legacy of storytelling in the Deep South. She was chosen by Safiya Sinclair as the 2017 Poetry Prize Winner for Blue Mesa Review. She was and has been featured as a social-political pundit on CNN. Her essays and poems have been published in Blue Mesa Review, Selfish Magazine, in Scalawag, on For Harriett, ESSENCE Mag, Allure, NBC Blk, and Huffington Post. Her collection, Gumbo Ya Ya, won the Write Bloody Poetry Prize. Her work has been featured on a global host of stages, most importantly in her grandmother's kitchen.
I have my Tinder filters set to include men and women between the ages of 24 and 50 (judge ya mama, not me) in a six-mile radius of my Oakland, California, apartment.
By Aurielle Marie "I'm curating a show for disabled poets, and I think you should feature," read the message from my friend and renowned poet, Kay Ulanday Barrett. A Filipinx-amerikan performer and activist, Kay had the kind of no-nonsense frankness that was both affirming and a bit intimidating. "Me?" I asked.
Black Lives Matter activist Aurielle Marie says she is still looking for a
MY ARTICLES
It's 2PM in San Francisco- on a sunny day in April. It's Good Friday, a time that provokes a nostalgic recalling of long-as-hell church services and impossibly uncomfortable dresses for me. If I was back home in the South, I'd be helping my mother cook in preparation for Easter.
I realize somewhere between being pushed into a trash can by an oblivious
When Gabby Douglas brought home gold medals in the 2012 Summer Olympics, one would have assumed the conversation among Americans would be about her spectacular performance. After all, gymnastics takes physicality, agility, and more than a hint of superhuman magic.
If there's one thing I've learned as an activist and organizer in the national movement for Black Lives, it is this: No protest is complete without a Pepsi... Or at least, that's an idea the fizzy drink brand would like you to adopt.
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