Dasia Moore
@daijmoore.bsky.social
Poet in and of the Carolinas. Queer child of the Black South. Words in Boston Globe Mag, FENCE, The Offing, ++ 💌 If Doris Loved Me 💌 and more @ dasiasmoore.com
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This interview with Nikki Giovanni from earlier this year should be required reading. oxfordamerican.org/web-only/nik...
![I think the transgender kids are the bravest kids right now that we see; they're as brave as my generation was in breaking down segregation. They're breaking down-I don't have the word for it right now-but it's gender prejudice, and [the idea that] somebody has decided that they can tell you who you are, what your name should be, and how you should look.
And those youngsters are saying, "No, I can decide who I am, what my name should be." Everybody's mad at me like, You should be a girl because we've decided you're a girl. And they say, "Well, who the hell are you?" I can decide that I'm a boy. And if it makes me happy, what does it mean to you? And I can decide that my name is John. And if you don't like that my name is Geraldine, why can't you name yourself? And if the people who know you and love you-or have to talk to you, maybe they don't even love you but they have to talk to you -you can tell them, “This is my name, and I would like to be referred to in that way."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bb6m3nt3ohlter5c35zjlt6z/bafkreibs7rspksh3k7ekvnnmxzeenwwuvr4ab6fs4usuckmu2zpdzq3hcq@jpeg)
December 10, 2024 at 3:18 AM
This interview with Nikki Giovanni from earlier this year should be required reading. oxfordamerican.org/web-only/nik...
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You see what I mean?
December 10, 2024 at 5:58 PM
You see what I mean?
that thought came yesterday, partly thanks to wesley morris’s podcast on stevie wonder. and further back, bc of the memory of nikki giovanni singing her mother’s favorite showtunes and ballads at the jazz festival in harlem this year
December 10, 2024 at 5:55 PM
that thought came yesterday, partly thanks to wesley morris’s podcast on stevie wonder. and further back, bc of the memory of nikki giovanni singing her mother’s favorite showtunes and ballads at the jazz festival in harlem this year
I wanna ask her about her mama’s favorite singers. My great-grandma
December 10, 2024 at 5:53 PM
I wanna ask her about her mama’s favorite singers. My great-grandma
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This country wants poor people to die. They want them to suffer from treatable conditions. They are gleeful about it. And that’s why no one cares about an insurance CEO. This is their bed and they get to lie on it.
December 6, 2024 at 4:29 AM
This country wants poor people to die. They want them to suffer from treatable conditions. They are gleeful about it. And that’s why no one cares about an insurance CEO. This is their bed and they get to lie on it.