On the fourth track of Solange Knowles’ new album When I Get Home, there are gunshots. You could almost miss it; the clocking of the gun, interspersed with its firing, is so effortlessly melded into the melody…
Tag: women of color
Frida Kahlo, Making Herself an Exhibit
I am younger than I am now and wearing a green velvet dress. My face is painted and I have violet flowers tucked within my dark hair. My earrings drip to my shoulders and I feel dazzlingly happy as I sit in the passenger’s seat beside the man I love …
剩女 (Sheng Nu. Left over Woman)
How old are you? Shouldn’t you be married? …
woman at sea
sure, love / is a four-letter mystery and so is home. / my sister writes poems in the back of engineering class / learning to build bridges back / to a place that spat her out so soft, / the way a mother’s womb expels a life / out of water…
