Black Feminist Becoming: Sand, Solidarity and Practice

Becoming

"I was born a Black woman

 and now

 I am become a Palestinian"

-June Jordan “Moving Towards Home”

"High

above this desert

I am

becoming

absorbed"

 -Audre Lorde "Sahara"

a poem by the participants in “Black Feminist Becoming: Sand, Solidarity and Practice”

we are becoming our breathing

we are becoming focused

we are becoming the ways in which we belong to one another

we are becoming awakened to the world

we are becoming our fire

we are becoming ceasefire

we are becoming porous

we are becoming unafraid of play

we are becoming a chorus, singing solidarity

we are becoming free

we are becoming led by inner truth

we are becoming our legacy

we are becoming the ones we were always meant to be

we are becoming dangerous to empire

we are becoming the full embrace of our anger and our love

we are becoming soft and unguarded in our hearts

we are becoming breathing miracles

we are becoming liminal

we are becoming together, now, regardless

we are becoming our care

we are becoming wind

we are becoming our joy

we are becoming the leaders we need

we are becoming the sacred medicine for the world

we are becoming a balm for ancient wounds

we are becoming one name

we are becoming ready to bloom again and again and again

we are becoming unashamed

we are becoming militant lovers

we are becoming courageous

we are becoming the step forward

we are becoming free

we are becoming each other’s harvest

we are becoming who we are

we are becoming whole

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