Alexis De Veaux: the first in the series Queer as in Fearlessness.
This is the story my grandfather told Membrane This is not the story my grandfather told Memoir: New Orleans it was called that world. We were left there to work and work and work, and be broken Until came a day, and they said go, you free. It was said some couldfly, those orisha. There was a boat and we sail for our world. We did not fear water daughter. A canoe is not ships. And the water was, water was Returning, some saw Yemaja she cry waves. And there came a great storm. A great storm. Some of our people fell inside Yemaja. Some swam because Yemaja let them ride she. To the nearest shore. This is what you must remember you is from Bahama you is from Ayitiy You is from Coobayou You is from Barbaduhs You is from there here.
He did not say this is true. He said, remember this daughter " From Yabo by Alexis De Veaux
Sokari Ekine
Sokari Ekine is a Queer Nigerian British Feminist, diasporic nomad, visual scholar, and activist, writer, educator seeking out new possibilities and ways of being beyond the normative and hegemony of whiteness, heterosexuality and native informers.