So the parent who got my inaugural poem The Hill We Climb banned for elementary students @BGEC_Bobcats has ties to WHITE SUPREMACIST ORGS. Anyone surprised?@MiamiDadeCounty This is a shame for the children in your school system who deserve to have access to poetry.
So they ban my book from young readers, confuse me with @oprah , fail to specify what parts of my poetry they object to, refuse to read any reviews, and offer no alternatives…Unnecessary #bookbans like these are on the rise, and we must fight back 👊🏿 DONATE here: https://t.co/QFjBGwYDCL
Friends, I will be doing a 3-hour long zoom lecture & conversation about international poetry in time of crisis - on June 10th. All proceeds will go to support refugee center & food bank, writers & independent newspsper in Odesa, Ukraine - here is a link to description:
@thejjalvarez@gothicprophet@cowboyinbrla@cmclymer@StephenM@Dodgers@MLB Not a blanket command? Oh was that not covered by my first damn sentence?
Point being, jesus/god gets to tell people what to do, the rest of us are supposed to put down our stones (trust I don’t need to find *that* passage for you).
@thejjalvarez@gothicprophet@cowboyinbrla@cmclymer@StephenM@Dodgers@MLB Nope, just the perfect ones.
Anyone less than should probably shut the fuck up about others’ faith tho— only God can judge &all that.
Also pretty sure Jesus would dig drag queens over child molesters, based on his history of hanging w/whores and tax collectors over pharisees 🤷🏻♀️
RIP to that brief moment in time when a good amount of people said, “Bye, Felicia!” to each other.
Quite often, sans irony.
It was real.
It happened. Here. In the real world. It’s not some echo of a fever dream.
You are not alone. I remember too.