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Eugenia Leigh

@eugenialeigh.bsky.social

Poet. Author of Bianca + Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows Senior Poetry Editor @ The Adroit Journal Board President @ Brooklyn Poets

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer@brcremer.bsky.social · 2y ago

If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have profoundly misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.

soul khan@soulkhan.bsky.social · 2y ago

you can be driven into homelessness by someone like brian thompson, then legally murdered by someone like daniel penny, while the money that could have saved you is spent on murdering children in gaza.

Raquel Willis@raquelwillis.com · 2y ago

Nikki Giovanni staunchly supported trans folks, especially trans youth. Her encouragement is a balm. “I think the transgender kids are the bravest kids right now that we see; they're as brave as my generation was in breaking down segregation.”

A white square with black text reading, “I remember in a recent interview you spoke about your support of the trans community, because you said: "I see that transgender youngsters are the ones who are helping to take planet Earth into the galaxy because we're going to run into other life forms that our gender does not matter." Can you speak about that a bit? I think the transgender kids are the bravest kids right now that we see; they're as brave as my generation was in breaking down segregation. They're breaking down —I don't have the word for it right now-but it's gender prejudice, and [the idea that] somebody has decided that they can tell you who you are, what your name should be, and how you should look.”A white square with black text reading, “And those youngsters are saying, "No, I can decide who I am, what my name should be." Everybody's mad at me like, You should be a girl because we've decided you're a girl. And they say, "Well, who the hell are you?" I can decide that I'm a boy. And if it makes me happy, what does it mean to you? And I can decide that my name is John. And if you don't like that my name is Geraldine, why can't you name yourself? And if the people who know you and love you— or have to talk to you, maybe they don't even love you but they have to talk to you-you can tell them, "This is my name, and I would like to be referred to in that way."A white square with black text reading, “But when we go into the galaxy, a life-form may say, "Who are you?" Well, there's no point in talking to another life-form and [saying] "I'm a boy or a girl," because it may have no meaning. That may mean nothing to them. So what you're going to say is, "I am a life form from the third planet, from the yellow sun," therefore giving yourself an identity. You don't have an identity because you say, "I'm a boy, I'm a girl, I'm a Jew or Gentile, I'm a Catholic or Baptist." That doesn't mean anything once you get beyond the prejudices of Earth. So yeah, I think the transgender students are really brave because they're taking a lot of flack for just wanting to be themselves and to have the right to have their own name. I think that's incredibly brave, and I think that they're absolutely right to want to do that. To want to own themselves.”
talia jane@taliajane.bsky.social · 2y ago

Daniel Penny acquitted after literally killing someone on camera for being disruptive on the train the same day a person of interest in the shooting of a shitbag healthcare exec gets grabbed pretty succinctly sums up who in this country is allowed to kill and who they’re allowed to kill.

Eugenia Leigh@eugenialeigh.bsky.social · 2y ago

Check out the Brooklyn Poets online auction! I’m donating the following: ✨written feedback on 1 full-length poetry manuscript ✨1-hr zoom convo — anything poetry-related ✨(2) book bundles: signed copies of Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows + Bianca plus 2 signed broadsides Auction ends this Sat 12/14

Beige graphic. Top text: Brooklyn Poets Auction Fundraiser. Bid @ bit [dot] ly [slash] bkp [dash] give through Dec 14th. Then a headshot of Eugenia in glasses and red lipstick. Bottom text says Manuscript feedback with Eugenia Leigh Beige graphic. Top text: Brooklyn Poets Auction Fundraiser. Bid @ bit [dot] ly [slash] bkp [dash] give through Dec 14th. Then a headshot of Eugenia in glasses and red lipstick. Bottom text says 1 hour consult with Eugenia Leigh Bild
Bruno J. Navarro@brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 2y ago

nypl book of the day Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders Vanessa Angélica Villarreal Villarreal's essays look to music, fantasy, and pop culture—from Beyoncé to Game of Thrones—to heal, to reimagine, and to excavate what has been disappeared by migration and colonialism

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George Abraham 🍉@intifadabatata.bsky.social · 2y ago

Heres an interview i did with Lena for Triquarterly over a year ago in the before before before times go listen to her wisdom and DO WHAT SHE SAID IN HER ACCEPTANCE SPEECH GO STOP THE GENOCIDE AND FREE PALESTINE www.triquarterly.org/the-latest-w...

Language Is Also A Place: An Interview with Lena Khalaf Tuffaha — TriQuarterly

“The Palestine I knew was the product of the language of people I grew up reading – Ghassan Kanafani, Mahmoud Darwish, and Fadwa Touqan... So many of us owe our sense of self and lineage and belonging...

triquarterly.org

Elly Belle (they/them)@literelly.bsky.social · 2y ago

alright I am wide awake working on a project so you all get my poetry starter pack of poets who know what the fuck is up (AKA are lefty, support Palestine, write good shit of all varieties, and are very worth reading in my expert opinion... disclaimer, most are my buds!) go.bsky.app/2s73n71

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