poet. beatmaker. cultural historian. they/them. “monster house.” (@cavecanempoets/@jaialaibooks, 2019). “the space between men.” (@penguinbooks, 2025).
New to Penguin Poets: THE SPACE BETWEEN MEN by @Poetinthehat!
A poetic ethnography that creates and documents the vocabulary of the Southern Black queer experience, THE SPACE BETWEEN MEN looks to familial history, rituals of faith, and the natural world to explore how the intersecting cultures of Blackness and queerness relate to each other.
Start reading now 👉 https://t.co/qHFZPkWH42
I heard an interview today about AI in creative spaces and the man being interviewed said “AI is data, and Data can only look backwards. Creativity looks forwards.” And I need to sit with that in the best possible way.
I am so excited to share a project I've been working on for a minute now.
I spoke to over 15 collaborators from Beyoncé's iconic B'DAY album to reflect on its creation and impact 20 years later.
Get into the full retrospective here:
https://t.co/2FdND4Jt62
“What am I going to do today or tomorrow in order to contribute to the material conditions that enable revolutionary love to be the norm and not the aberration?”
— Joy James
The “protect women’s sports” crowd has been using women athletes as props. Now a WNBA star is publicly telling them to stop. Brianna Turner: “Don’t use athletes like me to exclude others.”