The beginning was a burning drip of fire and sandfrom a diviner’s tray: “You will pound your womb into ash; carry your bulbs to the pyre”That vast body. That loss, that oneline from many tongues.I was wide, fleet footedFree. I swallowed the pleaopened my handsto her underneathto her colored seas I am the […]
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Secrecy and the Poetics of Witness: Mourning Fanny Ann Eddy
The arts of mourning, like the masquerade and the elegy in poetry, are cultural treasures and sources of memory beyond the silence of death. How then do we mourn as queer and same gender loving Africans in the face of state-sanctioned violence and homophobia, which have led to the deaths of LGBTI Africans from Sierra […]