A Commitment to/with/for The Damned

We, The Damned Collective, are delighted to host the work of The Damned. Below you will read a collective statement from The Damned Collective to/with/for The Damned. We ask that you read...

The (Un)Fair Fight for a Just Democracy

We, The Damned Collective, are delighted to host the work of...

Lessons from the Damned, 2018

By. Dr. G & Dr. Kimberly S. Love “The slaves who...

Trans Multitudes and Death Reality: A Coda

Tw; Death Reality. I’ve come to accept that I will die....

Multitudes

By Sasha Alexander “ISLAN (WON’T YOU CELBRATE) ft. Lucille Clifton” –...

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A Love Note To CeCe McDonald
By Guest Contributor on November 24, 2017
By Joshua Allen We got to know each other over late night walks in Brooklyn and early morning breakfasts comprised exclusively of cocktails. Even...
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Entanglement
By Guest Contributor on November 23, 2017
By Che Gossett Entanglement: “the articulation of a theory is gathering place, sometimes a point of rest as the process rushes on, insisting that...
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– Luanda calling, Berlin burning – (Stop)
By Guest Contributor on November 23, 2017
By WoMANtís RANDom Paris warning, London BrrreX -that’s it. I’ll go ahead after I got head. Abra accompanies this written piece with „Crybaby“. I have...
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Black, Trans, & Still Breathing
By Guest Contributor on November 23, 2017
By KOKUMO it all started in a slave-ship the belly of a beast whose appetite your ancestors could neva’ satisfy but that didn’t...
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Take Me to the Water
By Guest Contributor on November 22, 2017
By Amari Xolá Rasin Think about the consciousness and memory of water and how it mirrors our body and attachment to memory The waters...
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some call it a comeback
By Guest Contributor on November 22, 2017
By SA Smythe some call it a comeback i just got back & already feel the need to time travel again. not the way that...
Casting Prayers for Survival: Towards a Black Trans Theology
By Guest Contributor on November 22, 2017
By J Mase III Who taught you how to pray? To conjure? To worship? To manifest? What was the context and intention? I was 11...
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An Introduction: When Remembering Forgets, What Forgetting Remembers
By Guest Contributor on November 20, 2017
#TransMultitudes An Introduction By CeCe McDonald, Kai M. Green, and Treva C. Ellison This year for Trans Day of Remembrance, we are excited...
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America Taught Me How To Forget
By Guest Contributor on November 20, 2017
By Jay-Marie Hill America Taught Me How To Forget america taught me how to forget my name my pain my stories my glories it’s...
Honoring Chef Yulanda
By Guest Contributor on November 20, 2017
By Evolve Benton Chef Yulanda chef cooked the meals fed us bois confidence fed us bois freedom This is what black boi life...
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When the Tipping Point Melts
By Guest Contributor on November 20, 2017
By Lex Kennedy When Lavern Cox graced the May 2014 cover of the TIME magazine “The Transgender Tipping Point” I realized the Black Trans iceberg...
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Fiction: Making Gulab Jamun and Kachori
By Guest Contributor on July 5, 2017
By Jyothsnaphanija Doctor examines mother-in-law’s pulse, fills home with smell of syringes. You remember playing with syringes, when you were a five year old girl, the...
A Poem by Jenny Rossi
By Guest Contributor on May 31, 2017
My face a Band-Aid, ode to insecurity I think the new intern is smarter than me the way a lake is wider than a...