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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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Timi Sanni
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The Drinking Gourd
Mar 12, 2021
Ode to th
e Boy I was at Genesis
my body still remembers the hand of God
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Soukeyna Osei-Bonsu
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The Drinking Gourd
Feb 26, 2021
The Walls Are Snitching
the same black ink I used to wade in / has congealed like tar about us
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Timi Sanni
in
The Drinking Gourd
Jan 29, 2021
My phone auto-corrects ‘in sha Allah” to “in shape (of) Allah”
& I’m left thinking / that this phone…
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orion flowers (they/them)
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The Drinking Gourd
Jan 15, 2021
Nights Lament for Home
if i had a dollar
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Sadiyah Bashir
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The Drinking Gourd
Dec 4, 2020
Nicki Minaj’s Verse on New Body as an Allegory for Repentance
I sink my head into a hard sujood,
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Sagirah Shahid
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The Drinking Gourd
May 22, 2020
Hummingbird Heart
A hummingbird’s heart / is too large for its body
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Sagirah Shahid
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The Drinking Gourd
May 8, 2020
Of Course,
Black Women Invented Navigation
in the future we are more than the undying
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sun
in
The Drinking Gourd
Oct 25, 2019
soco / go on
ringing mandem down to the saccharine sounds
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