Verse from the Village

Blood, Skin, and Water is a complicated letter of love and lament to familial legacy and how it informs the physical and spiritual self. At its core, it’s a story of resilience through a Black, queer, and disabled lens. Despite loss, death, illness, and the violent experience of being Black and femme in a world that loves to hate—I am still here. My community is still here; and we deserve to cry, curse, love on each other, disappear into our heads, then celebrate when we find our way out. Blood, Skin, and Water is a testament to being—in spite of it all.