Read on Twitter
maybe I should thread the stuff i read online like I do hard copies? 
anyway, even as this came late, here goes:
anyway, even as this came late, here goes:
thrived in my hormonal flee. it takes minutes
to eat red water. his discharge,Â
a trail of white moisture in the white noise.
bodies tangled beneath the whining engine.
running and wailing, they cupped
the chaos. the bodies, like my baby's
â @onyi_chinedu https://danglepoet.blogspot.com/2020/01/conversation-among-car-and-bodies.html?spref=tw
to eat red water. his discharge,Â
a trail of white moisture in the white noise.
bodies tangled beneath the whining engine.
running and wailing, they cupped
the chaos. the bodies, like my baby's
â @onyi_chinedu https://danglepoet.blogspot.com/2020/01/conversation-among-car-and-bodies.html?spref=tw
still one of those beautyful yet heartbreaking accounts of creative nonfiction. Binyavanga Wainaina, ladies and gentlemen! https://granta.com/since-everything-suddening-hurricane/
âI am helpless to this golden twinkling at sundown:
this architecture of clouds,
dyed into a line of yellow neonÂnessâ https://brittlepaper.com/2020/02/in-the-palms-of-night-chisom-okafor-poetry/
this architecture of clouds,
dyed into a line of yellow neonÂnessâ https://brittlepaper.com/2020/02/in-the-palms-of-night-chisom-okafor-poetry/
âYou hang your fears
Like jackets in closets
& bury sullen memories
In unmarked graves.â
â @bardmus https://kreativediadem.com/the-man-who-wears-the-seasons-jide-badmus/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=today_on_kreative_diadem_the_man_who_wears_the_seasons_by_jide_badmus&utm_term=2020-03-30
Like jackets in closets
& bury sullen memories
In unmarked graves.â
â @bardmus https://kreativediadem.com/the-man-who-wears-the-seasons-jide-badmus/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=today_on_kreative_diadem_the_man_who_wears_the_seasons_by_jide_badmus&utm_term=2020-03-30
âI will come thinking to rescue you. That my tears will wash the glass from your eye and melt the ice in your heart. That the Snow Queenâs spell will break, and you will be free.â https://www.tor.com/2019/12/04/the-time-invariance-of-snow-e-lily-yu/
âSomeone like me could never have existed in any other era than now. [...]I have an album being released internationally, being an out, political, queer black person who speaks his mind and makes good music? My existence is miraculous.â â @nakhaneofficial https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/06/arts/music/nakhane-you-will-not-die.html
âDeath walked in, taking a seat at the table as the kettle came to a boil. The woman silently wheeled herself over to the drain board to fetch another mug. As she moved, the light danced across fingers, each sporting a silver splint.â https://omenana.com/2018/08/30/memento-mori-tiah-marie-beautement/
Toni Morrisonâs Democracy of Vision https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/12/24/toni-morrisons-democracy-of-vision/
Love and Prejudice https://omenana.com/2015/10/28/love-and-prejudice/ via @OmenanaMag
Could #EndHomophobiaInNigeria Be The Start Of A Cultural Revolution? https://www.anastyboy.co/home/could-endhomophobiainnigeria-be-the-start-of-a-cultural-revolution
âThe agony of being unloved grew not out of unrequited affection or the lingering desire to be with our beloved, not even out of tormenting memories, but from the simple bewilderment, the sheer shock that even we [...] could be unloved.â
â @Otosirieze https://brittlepaper.com/2017/06/tenderer-blessing-otosirieze-obiyoung-fiction/
â @Otosirieze https://brittlepaper.com/2017/06/tenderer-blessing-otosirieze-obiyoung-fiction/
âThe Banality of Empathyâ, an essay by Namwali Serpell. https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/03/02/the-banality-of-empathy/
âShe sits tall on her throne, Neptuneâs daughter. The most beautiful woman Iâve ever seen. Her flawless skin is black like polished obsidian. [...] Her wise eyes sparkle like pearls. Her hair is green and wild like reeds in the river Tsanga.â https://johannesburgreviewofbooks.com/2019/01/14/new-short-fiction-njuzu-by-tl-huchu-excerpted-from-the-pan-african-science-fiction-anthology-afrosfv3/
âWe still need to do more than representing just cis-gay and cis-lesbian characters and narratives for futures in African fiction to be inclusive. It is paramount to have everyone at the table: transgender, non-binary, disabled, intersexual, asexual...â https://overland.org.au/2019/12/towards-inclusive-futures-queer-representation-in-futuristic-african-fiction/
anyway, here's a short story for you.
âThe Matchâ by @TroyOnyango https://troyonyango.com/the-match/
âThe Matchâ by @TroyOnyango https://troyonyango.com/the-match/
âHyacinth Ike planned to die on a Friday because it felt right that he complete his life on a day when other people tidied up their office desks for the week and headed for nightclubs, bachelor parties, and quick weekend trips.â
âby @decimal_point https://www.addastories.org/by-way-of-a-life-plot/
âby @decimal_point https://www.addastories.org/by-way-of-a-life-plot/
Here's an absolutely brilliant short story for you.
âMaserumoâ by @avatar_reso
http://munyori.org/fiction/maserumo-by-resoketswe-m-manenzhe-south-africa/
âMaserumoâ by @avatar_reso
http://munyori.org/fiction/maserumo-by-resoketswe-m-manenzhe-south-africa/
âI had never been in the marrying game before; I just wasnât that way inclined, not until after Margaret Roe died. I went up to her grave and I promised to keep her secrets, especially the ones which werenât hers.â https://granta.com/death-margaret-roe/
âThe bloody collateral damage during a supposed negotiated transition from apartheid rule to a non-racial democracy has been tacitly ignored. It does not fit into the inspirational narrative of the universal moral right overcoming white supremacy.â https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/documenting-bloody-transition-apartheid-191209141005959.html
a poem by June Jordan. thank you @SBADZMD for bringing me to this. 
https://mysteryofascension.com/we-are-the-ones-we-have-been-waiting-for/
https://mysteryofascension.com/we-are-the-ones-we-have-been-waiting-for/
âwhen she opens her mouth to laugh at the joke,
she spills her grief all over the tablecloth.â https://therumpus.net/2020/01/rumpus-original-poetry-two-poems-by-hussain-ahmed/
she spills her grief all over the tablecloth.â https://therumpus.net/2020/01/rumpus-original-poetry-two-poems-by-hussain-ahmed/
âIt struck me how cruel a curse life is on human beings, & how the love that gave them so much joy could also cause them so much pain, and I bemoaned it: this turbid ebb and flow of human misery. Surely death was the only way out of this miserable cycle?â https://afreada.com/2016/10/26/what-the-tree-saw-by-imade-iyamu/
"I try and create work that makes Black Queer people see themselves in, work that aggressively highlights all the injustices we face. I create work that is unapologetically Black and Queer." - @EsihleL
On Queerness, Identity and Memory https://link.medium.com/2jmOOTJSC6
On Queerness, Identity and Memory https://link.medium.com/2jmOOTJSC6
