“ah-DEB-ay” (a·deb’ā) | writer, editor, equity/sensitivity reader, & author of poem “Song of Sheba” as seen on the #TTC
Joined December 2009
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Seeing my #poem in the city of my birth & in this prominent/accessible way is beyond my wildest writerly dreams 🥹
♥@PoemsInPassage @TTCNewsroom @CityOfToronto @TorontoStar
#africanqueen #eastafrica #makeda #poet #poems #poemsinpassage #queenofsheba #readpoetry #toronto #ttc
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Wrote about Toronto’s housing for artists—or the dire lack thereof, & what that means for BIPOC artists—for @thismagazine (thx for the space, @sarratch) 🎨💔
this.org/2024/12/21/move-us-…
#housing #Toronto #AffordableHousing #HousingCrisis
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1 Nov 2024
“We understand the world better if we tremble with it.”
- Édouard Glissant
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"...We are living in the time of rampant, celebrated, unabashed anti-intellectualism. It's bizarre to think that most people expect authors to write entertaining narratives and not comment on timely topics."
10 Jul 2024
I wrote about my experience in France for @esquire. It’s a bittersweet piece about the treatment authors get there compared to the one we get here at home. A million thanks to @adriennemwest for letting me write this! Hope y’all dig it.
esquire.com/entertainment/bo…
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8 May 2024
The world has lost me, I have become entirely ungovernable
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7 May 2024
i really love Macklemore’s Hind’s Hall💯—but let’s not forget it was a Black rapper named Redveil who was the 1st artist to name all children killed in Gaza, call for a ceasefire & say “Free Palestine!” during a live concert
he was 19 & it was nov 12th
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11 Apr 2024
“If a white man wants to lynch me, that's his problem. If he's got the power to lynch me, that's my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it's a question of power.”
- Kwame Ture
11 Apr 2024
We can train people to unlearn white supremacy, but making sure white supremacist don’t have power is far more important.
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17 Feb 2024
Epistemicide - the killing of knowledge systems. 👇🏼
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Gold & waxing poetic ✨ thinking about spectral homelands burning brightly / in the distance / how poetry tends to this distance #africa #africanauthor #africanliterature #authorlife #bipocauthors #book #books #eastafrica #nubia #poems #poet #poetry #writer #writerslife
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This text was recently written by Aaron Bushnell. It demonstrates that Bushnell was entirely sane, knew his facts, was logical, coherent, and thoroughly lucid.
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If Aaron Bushnell had destroyed his life fighting a war, on behalf of the empire, he’d be unquestionably celebrated as a hero. Instead he destroyed his life exposing the moral rot at the heart of empire, and our complicity in its cruelties. That’s why his memory will be attacked.
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