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The Drinking Gourd

The Drinking Gourd provides nuanced depictions of the Black Muslim Diaspora through various forms of media, including but not limited to: visual art, poems, non-fiction, and fiction.

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  • The Walls Are Snitching

    The Walls Are Snitching

    The pungent smell of paranoia / the pigeon’s red eye / pulsating
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    Soukeyna Osei-Bonsu
    Feb 26
    My phone auto-corrects ‘in sha Allah” to “in shape (of) Allah”

    My phone auto-corrects ‘in sha Allah” to “in shape (of) Allah”

    & I’m left thinking / that this phone has danced / on the edge of blasphemy / but perhaps, built / on: a pinhole vocabulary / a famished…
    Go to the profile of Timi Sanni
    Timi Sanni
    Jan 29
    Nights Lament for Home

    Nights Lament for Home

    if i had a dollar
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    pyramid jones, the gardener
    Jan 15
    From the Hilltops

    From the Hilltops

    From the hilltops and the mountains
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    Jummai Umar
    Dec 18, 2020
    Nicki Minaj’s Verse on New Body as an Allegory for Repentance

    Nicki Minaj’s Verse on New Body as an Allegory for Repentance

    I sink my head into a hard sujood,
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    Sadiyah Bashir
    Dec 4, 2020
    The Desert Traveler's Prayer

    The Desert Traveler's Prayer

    If I will not emerge alive at the other end, please make my body a meal
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    Pèlúmi Sàlàkọ́
    Oct 23, 2020
    Desert Dwellers

    Desert Dwellers

    Hear the singsong of djinns sailing / along with the shifting dunes
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    Pèlúmi Sàlàkọ́
    Oct 9, 2020
    Under Your Mother’s Feet: A Continued Conversation With Sadiyah Bashir

    Under Your Mother’s Feet: A Continued Conversation With Sadiyah Bashir

    “When you become a mother, that’s a weight…The idea that what I do for them could make or break their paradise is amazing to me.”
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    The Drinking Gourd
    Sep 25, 2020
    Locating A Living Islam: A Conversation With Sadiyah Bashir

    Locating A Living Islam: A Conversation With Sadiyah Bashir

    “I grew up in a predominantly Black Muslim community where we knew Islam is a living thing, it is old and young.”
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    The Drinking Gourd
    Aug 28, 2020
    Dahlia

    Dahlia

    I picture the home that will never end / inside the pink hue of a hollowed pearl
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    Soukeyna Osei-Bonsu
    Aug 14, 2020
    Making a Case for W.E.B. Du Bois as a Proto Afrofuturist

    Making a Case for W.E.B. Du Bois as a Proto Afrofuturist

    The term Afrofuturism evokes a stellar litany: musicians Sun Ra and George Clinton, and novelists, Octavia Butler and Samuel R. Delany…
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    Safiyah Cheatam
    Jul 31, 2020
    Home for Two Weeks

    Home for Two Weeks

    It had been five years since I had been to Nigeria before returning in late 2019. Five years dreaming about gida, tracking ticket prices…
    Go to the profile of Jummai Umar
    Jummai Umar
    Jun 19, 2020
    Hummingbird

    Hummingbird

    A hummingbird’s heart / is too large for its body
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    Sagirah Shahid
    May 22, 2020
    blacklighting

    blacklighting

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    AM
    May 21, 2020
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