Adebe

“ah-DEB-ay” (a·deb’ā) | writer, editor, equity/sensitivity reader, & author of poem “Song of Sheba” as seen on the #TTC

[Adebe @adebe_]

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

[Adebe @adebe_]

A year old ... but feels new https://t.co/2fSV3xvPen

[Adebe @adebe_]

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) 🎨💔

https://t.co/fniP40Adzu

#housing #Toronto #AffordableHousing #HousingCrisis

[Adebe @adebe_]

“My aura is the mystery of life. Renouncing my name, I go beyond myself, and then I am the world. I follow the voice of the world with my single voice.” —Clarice Lispector

[Adebe @adebe_]

@Joseph_Fasano_ Your poems have been lifelines & I know this work will be one too

[Jacob Wren @EverySongIveEve]

“We understand the world better if we tremble with it.”
- Édouard Glissant

[Adebe @adebe_]

"...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."

[Gabino Iglesias @Gabino_Iglesias]

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.
https://t.co/QXVaNoWOOb

[Chelsea Dingman @ChelsDingman]

—Dionne Brand

[Essayful @Essayful]

William Faulkner — there are no excuses (1956)

[Bodega Baddie @CAMONGHNE]

The world has lost me, I have become entirely ungovernable

[Erin Overbey @erinoverbey]

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

[E @Ericangelo_ms]

“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

[Dr Zahira Jaser زاهرة جاسر @ZahiraJaser]

Epistemicide - the killing of knowledge systems. 👇🏼

[Adebe @adebe_]

Maryse Condé 🥀

[Adebe @adebe_]

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

[Adebe @adebe_]

Feeling this 1000% 🥀

[Adebe @adebe_]

@NoUseForJosiah Omg thx so much 🖤