a small bite of intimacy

a poem about Blackness, masculinity, and healing to connect written in collaboration with Robert Monson

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Mar 01, 2023

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Today’s poem was written in collaboration with my friend-who-became-family, Robert Monson. As I was reading Alexis De Veaux’s chapter in the book Black Women Writers At Work I came across this reflection on the Black sexist debate. I kept on coming back to it. Eventually, I felt inspired to write a poem about intimacy and Black Male Sexuality from our t…

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Robert the contemplative

PhD student. Black. Christian (but not the FOX news kind) I write, study theology (right now much of it is at the intersection of disability, soft masculinity, as well as Black and Womanist Theology), compose and play music, and I podcast.