brontë velez

listening and learning from the earth • "black matters are spatial matters" • alchemizing + decomposing english

[brontë velez @brontevelez]

people be historically citing harriet tubman as "illiterate" forgetting she knew how to read stars, soil, and wind

[Mystical Camaro @MysticalCamaro]

Listened to the amazing ep 184 of @ForTheWild_ with @brontevelez before bed, and dreamt this word up. Such a profound feast of a conversation. Thank you both Bronte and Ayana.

[brontë velez @brontevelez]

@MysticalCamaro @ForTheWild_ Yes word creation! I love this! So deep!

[brontë velez @brontevelez]

@YesAurielle Yes!!!! So proud of you

[aurielle is off socials. @YesAurielle]

I said big news was coming, and here it is: I’m so grateful to Cave Canem and to Douglas Kearney for selecting Gumbo Ya Ya as the 2020 Poetry Prize winner! It means so much to me that these poems are seen as worthy of such an honor.

AH! I’M FINNA HAVE A BOOK, Y’ALL! WHAT?!?

[stunna @stunnatiff]

thank you so much for this @brontevelez https://t.co/XOq21rSvUh

[Evan M. Coller @evanmcoller]

I keep coming back to this @ForTheWild_ podcast ft. @brontevelez. "What does a future look like in which white, human, and patriarchal supremacy surrender their power in an act of pleasure?" The future needs to be now🙏https://t.co/8g2Memd2ho

[Dr. Katie Schaag 🏳️‍🌈💅🔮✨ @KatieSchaag]

Consider donating to @brontevelez's collective Lead to Life to support Black life, Black joy, & Black healing.
https://t.co/QcuF0bSNOe
Donations support "a summer healing series for Black folks," "nourishing care packages for mothers in our community whose children..." /1

[For The Wild @ForTheWild_]

This 20 minute listen will change you. Take this moment and drop into @brontevelez’s prophecy "The Well" and then go support @LeadtoLife!

Tune in: https://t.co/rBWDr3Fmyl

[it's upsetting me and my homegirl @caribsprincess]

being black is having to search what the racism is like in the countries you want to visit.

[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

Burning a police precinct is not nearly as violent an act as holding your knee on a person’s neck for several minutes and choking the life out of them. This is another moment where the elite call upon us to feel more empathy for white property than for our own lives.

I don’t 🤷🏾‍♀️

[Maxine Waters @RepMaxineWaters]

Trump doesn’t care about the 80,000+ people who’ve died from #Coronavirus! He only wants to open up the economy so he can go back to having his white power pep rallies! The death & economic devastation we are facing is b/c Trump failed to act early & called #COVID19 a HOAX!

[Tye @tyenthomas]

My childhood bestfriend is dead. Not from COVID19. She died b/c a racist healthcare system means that Black women in America are 4x more likely than wyt women die from maternal health issues. She voiced her concerns to her Dr. and was ignored. She was 26. This was her last tweet.

[brontë velez @brontevelez]

@bigplaykae i honestly hate that shit lol

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Sometimes it still stops me in my tracks that because I believe insulin should be free, workers shld be paid justly, we shld house the homeless and not cage families, & that all people should be free to pursue education as they wish,for THAT we are treated as radical & dangerous.

[brontë velez @brontevelez]

@NayaThaGREAT loving you

[Eric Spiegelman @ericspiegelman]

My wife and I play this fun game during quarantine, it's called "Why Are You Doing It That Way?" and there are no winners