Now I’m thinking of all those who  never got to have many firsts.   Emmett & Trayvon & Tamir boys so light with futures so heavy with life with smiles bright enough to shine through the darkest nights, who will never get their first old car, first bad job, first love and first breakup. Danez says, don’t imagine us dead, Imagine us alive someplace better. & so, I like to imagine the...

A soul's first plunge into the depthsto be tested to the extremes in a cyclical nature not yet known to the breadth of humankind.A mindless wonder through the astral plane,Another arrival to a lifeyou have never lived,another first of many to exist in harmony.The echoes of your lives are heard,And so with the heart,You will see what you have beenBut never what you Could have been, 

A seedling in sprout Wore a coat undecided by the likes of fateA hydrophilic drop awoke the dormant migrant withinAnd the Earth breathed love againBut it was not to last,Her famine grasped all and the soil was once more dropless. In the final moments did fate pursue,A shower of warmth,Another droughtless growth,

JUST SAY NO, IT’S EASIER SAID THAN DONE I KNOW BUT THAT’S THE THING IT’S JUST A WORD WITH SO MUCH POWER THAT IT HOLDS. LOOKING TO THE SCREEN IT INFILTRATES MINDS. SUCH A BLOODY SCENE AND NO ONE SEES THAT IT’S A CRIME. PUSH THE POWER BUTTON SWITCH THE SCREEN FROM BLOOD TO BLACK. IN LIES, WE ARE GLUTTONOUS STABBING OURSELVES IN THE BACK. THEN FEED OUR CHILDREN WITH WORDS OF MISTRUST. PUNISHING TH...

There's this program from Long Beach, California I'd like to introduce called "Demo Reel", a comedy-talk show starring comedian Jalon Dyllan Sanford. What's different and fresh about this show isn't the quick-witted humor, nor the masterful editing from production company theDAMPERgroup, nor the unexpected antics in the show. What's different is that it's a magazine-format show (pressing topic...

I am white, and I see colour.Because to not is to be blind.Absolutely shut-eyed to the fact that somebody has seen your colourand hated the richness so much that you find your neck underneath their foot,the same foot they have used with their otherto trample on your humanitytheir whole half-life and then used to walk off lightly- no need to run because who do they need to run from?I see your co...

Black lives matter I am tired of living in a world where my very existence feels like a threat. Black lives matter and I’ll say it once and I’ll say it again and I’ll scream it from the top of my lungs until the world understands that black lives matter. This has nothing to do with black or white and everything to do with human rights. I fight for a better life because I want my children to gro...

I go outside and see less people wearing my skin I turn on the TV and I see less people wearing my skinAm I alone wearing my skin The look on people’s faces when they see my skinCrime associated with people wearing my skinGangs associated with people wearing my skinViolence associated with people wearing my skin Abuse showing to people wearing my skin I am afraid of wearing my skin Would it be ...

This year has been a rocky road of realization, through the year filled with upsies and downsies I've learnt from them all and therefore the title, 'an implausible cognizance'. These pictures represent the facts of how I realized that. The first one was a picture taken in the United States of America where i went there for a scholar competition, I took a few pictures around the place and slowl...

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It happens at once, together, like a murmuration of starlings changing course. There’s a young guy onstage, his face long and stabby and white as a...

Will Toledo is a furry. He came out onstage in Brooklyn, dressed as Mortis Jackrabbit, a gasmasked mammal with a coat like an old fox. His eyes glowed, plucked from a Fallout dream. Limbering up to ‘Bodys’, one of the best songs by his quite good band, Car Seat Headrest – and we can only assume with a smirk beneath the mask – he looked as if he was just getting used to himself at last. “Do yo...