She traded in her Dora the Explorer costumeĪnd a tee shirt with your husband’s face on it. How to identify your face in a land-field In the White House today, we see a harsh unclaiming of black and brown identity, but this poem is about how some of us, for the first time, felt home here.Īs if it existed in her long list of heroesīut she knows Black Barbie dolls and nap time, Humbly, I hope this piece rests as a thank you, at a time of great pseudo-patriotic unraveling. Jasmine Mans’s stunning new poetry collection speaks to her unique life experiences so poignantly, she makes them feel universal. Jasmine’s poetry book, BLACK GIRL, CALL HOME (Penguin Random House) has been named one of Oprah’s Most Anticipated LGBTQ Books and a TIME Magazine Must Read, to name a few and Jasmine herself named as Essence’s 1 Contemporary Black Poet To Know. We are cared for, we are allowed to take up space. Description: Jasmine Mans is a Black poet and performance artist from Newark, New Jersey. Maybe that’s the magic and burden of existing in a group of people who must overachieve in order to matter, to exist.
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