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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
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…
Timi Sanni
Jan 29
Nights Lament for Home
Nights Lament for Home
if i had a dollar
pyramid jones, the gardener
Jan 15
From the Hilltops
From the Hilltops
From the hilltops and the mountains
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,
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
Pèlúmi Sàlàkọ́
Oct 23, 2020
Desert Dwellers
Desert Dwellers
Hear the singsong of djinns sailing / along with the shifting dunes
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.”
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.”
The Drinking Gourd
Aug 28, 2020
Dahlia
Dahlia
I picture the home that will never end / inside the pink hue of a hollowed pearl
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…
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…
Jummai Umar
Jun 19, 2020
Hummingbird
Hummingbird
A hummingbird’s heart / is too large for its body
Sagirah Shahid
May 22, 2020
blacklighting
blacklighting
AM
May 21, 2020
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