![]() ![]() ![]() Then we're left with the question of who we actually are. So in order to find ourselves and connect with our own identities, we first have to break all that shit down. Because when we're born, we're born into all of these stereotypes and expectations and dangerous histories. That's super-particular to black womanhood. You know how the viewer is seeing you, and you kind of use it to your advantage, but at the same time you know it's painful to do that. And I think a lot about this weird thing where you're performing, but you know that you are. ![]() Yeah, a major theme in the book is performance. I noticed a pattern of speakers embracing various things that define their personal blackness in one poem, but then the next poem will present a speaker feeling melancholy about those same things being used as stereotypes and as the basis for violence. It's the least static thing in the world, the self. And that's very true in the book, where I'm moving in between a lot of things that can all be true at once. And I'm obsessed with being a new self all the time, like every single minute. ![]()
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