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Image credit: Lloyd Wong Unfinished, by Lesley Loski Chan (2025)
MisTik follows Cree twins who carry the last of the healthy trees on their backs in hopes of saving the world they once knew.
Black people have always practiced worldbuilding, a tool in our fixation on imagining and venturing towards collective liberation. ZION is a new take on the Rastafarian concept of Zion, the great escape from Babylon and its oppressive structures. I envision ZION as inextricably tied to the Buddhist concept of nirvana, the… ⊕
Pandrog is an exploration and poetic call for Black people to escape the terms and identities created by western imperialism. Two lovers run away from Babylon, a subversive look at gender and its trappings within the Black diaspora.
Throughout the 20th century, the Wereldmuseum (former Tropenmuseum)—Amsterdam’s most prominent museum of ethnography—has accumulated more than 150,000 objects from colonized regions worldwide. Today, these objects are obsessively polished, dusted, and neatly ordered, revealing an underlying anxiety connected… ⊕
a poem for my captor: I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry a man standing on a hill rooted to the skin. holding a bucket filled with stones.Each stone marks a dream and celebration of truthI was raised by mother, mom. mommy.family1 met, Mother, mom, mommy. familyKnowing where I fit has never been my strong pointThe dream is filled… ⊕