Intersect 5/31/21 Intersect 5/31/21

Mental Health Matters Now and Forever

Intersect believes that wellness, both physical and mental, are important practices we all can do to resist the pressures of society. One of the most radical activities you can do is to practice self-love and care.

Van Jackson 3/1/21 Van Jackson 3/1/21

This House is Not a Home

This house, is not a home.

Its given me more dark days, than light ones

More punishments, than rewards,

More anxiety, than happiness.

Andrea Paola Hernández 3/1/21 Andrea Paola Hernández 3/1/21

Sin titulo

y cuando digo muerta por dentro

realmente digo entrañas en carne viva

digo culto al dolor silencioso…

Elegant Bystander 2/24/21 Elegant Bystander 2/24/21

All I Know is Love

All I know is love

I grew up, drinking it by the gallons.

In this time of a pandemic and loads of panic…

amber williams-king 12/24/20 amber williams-king 12/24/20

Like the Sea Rushing In

I mouth at her glittering neck, her skin hot and wet like a melting sun. Slowly, I find her parted lips and we stumble into another kiss. My heart stutters from the fullness of it.

Tifa Wine/Ryan Persadie 11/2/20 Tifa Wine/Ryan Persadie 11/2/20

Coolieween

The names listed here are just a mere fragment of the lists upon lists of diasporic Indo-Caribbean women who have been injured, harmed, and murdered at the hands of heteropatriarchal power – whether that be in the form of their parents, community members, or even intimate partners.

Passion 11/1/20 Passion 11/1/20

Colour Me Black

Black child's mother says her ears gave it away

The hint of shame on an otherwise perfect face

Rhonda Williams aka Indira Wills 10/31/20 Rhonda Williams aka Indira Wills 10/31/20

Good Hair

Good Hair speaks to the upliftment and love for all women of colour. The influence of colourism and hair type bias has been an ugly remnant of a social conditioning adopted from slavery that is still very much alive and well today.

Ethan Knowles 10/30/20 Ethan Knowles 10/30/20

Passing Through

It was not until my third affair (the wrench in my relationship with Despair), that I began souveniring. In some ways the habit snuck up on me and in some ways it did not. In some ways it was entirely haphazard, wild and almost beyond my control. In some ways, I was totally in control

Sherine Powerful, Dr. Jallicia Jolly, & Kat J. Stephens 10/30/20 Sherine Powerful, Dr. Jallicia Jolly, & Kat J. Stephens 10/30/20

Thriving Despite, Worlds-Shifting through Corona

Radical love in the time of Corona is making space for arms akimbo and mouth agape, for knee(s) bent and heartache, as we vacillate between dread, prayer, and protest, as we let go of how things were and how they should be.

Lafleur Cockburn 10/30/20 Lafleur Cockburn 10/30/20

Memory Games

Yuh wake up screaming, parched lips bitter from the tail-end of another nightmare…

Barbara Arrindell 10/30/20 Barbara Arrindell 10/30/20

Belonging To Barbuda

Sally: You bring me here to ask foolish questions like that? You think anybody take time to tell enslaved people when and where they born? Many of us didn’t even know who bring us into this world, but not my children. I made sure that they grew up with me and that they knew their father.