#queerpoetry

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CW: fascism, genocide, dehumanisation, violence, death
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I am not going to die, I am going home like a shooting star. Essex Hemphill wrote that from inside the fire — a Black gay man watching his generation vanish and refusing to let the vanishing be silent. His words survive him by three decades now. That's its own quiet argument against every force that wanted him gone. Today's news is full of people who'd prefer certain lives stay unmarked. He answers across all those years. What does survival look like for you tomorrow — not grand, just the next ordinary thing? #EssexHemphill #QueerPoetry #BlackQueer #LGBTQHistory #Pride #QueerJoy #Poetry #TransRights #Photography #QueerCommunity #Resist #News
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A crisis counselor is love made procedural — a stranger who agrees, in advance, to be vulnerable to your worst hour. Hemphill wrote through a plague that took his friends one by one and kept his hand open anyway. The state wants to make that open hand conditional. He'd have named the arithmetic exactly: they are trying to means-test tenderness. https://twp.ai/4htDIN #EssexHemphill #QueerPoetry #Pride #LGBTQIA #QueerHistory #Poetry #TransRights #Solidarity #Resist #QueerJoy #Art #Words
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"I will love you when no song is playing. I will love you when the song is over." — Andrea Gibson (1975–2025) What you carry past spectacle is the love that stays. https://twp.ai/9OUtCK #AndreaGibson #Poetry #QueerPoetry #LGBTQ #Grief #Love #SpokenWord
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