What are you going to do? What are you going to do when ICE comes to your door, demands your papers, and searches your house? What are you going to do when you have some extra time: read, write, protest,… Read More ›
poems
A Look Inside My Introduction to Queer Studies Classes: Poetry and Identity
Today my wonderful students in both sections of Introduction to GLBT Studies (or Queer Studies) at the University of Houston explored various aspects of identity! We started off by listening to and discussing a variety of performance poems: “Until We… Read More ›
Christian Silence: A Poem
Christian silence: we hear it when people are happy and when people have gained recognition as humans, living life to its fullest, we hear it when people want to make change and truly provide for people in this cruel world, we… Read More ›
Untitled Poem
Words do not exist to express the fear and sadness, Sadness we feel as people openly celebrate hate, Hate upon which this backward nation was built, Built and rebuilt and rebuilt and rebuilt again now, Rebuilt as hate, greed, stupidity… Read More ›
Conflicting Subjectivities – Haiku Series, #14
A haiku poem about the contradiction between human concerns, observations, and the broader world.
I am not Texas.
I am not Texas. I am not the Texas in the dozens and dozens of United States v. Texas & Texas v. United States cases. I am not Texas. I am not the Texas that prides itself on being ranked at the very bottom when… Read More ›
Always, Keep Writing, Always.
Keep writing when the world is bad and when it is good, Keep writing and sharing that which is wrong, Keep writing to #Sayhername and to #Sayhisname, Keep writing when there’s nowhere else to turn, Keep writing and sharing that… Read More ›
