The Tyrant Fears the Code Poet

Steffany Brown
Nov 3 · 7 min read
Photo by Humphrey Muleba on Unsplash

During the earliest stages of my nontraditional software engineering education, I would often sit down to code and place my computer on a table covered with books of poetry. I loved coding but drew my power and sustenance as a Black woman from the words of poets like Jamila Woods, Jericho Brown, and Fatimah Asghar. The apparent contradiction between my interests always left me with a tiny itch, somehow, but I couldn’t quite put my…

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