week 4: queer and trans revolutionary struggle

“We need to articulate the real class situations of persons who are not merely raceless, sexless workers, but for whom racial and sexual oppression are significant determinants of their working/economic lives.”

- The Combahee River Collective Statement

“between

solitudes of illness

& beatitudes our lips utter

evening settles in this exile of senses for our surrender

one more friend’s death has clocked the day like a tolling bell

biding time we are shadows also shrinking early into destiny

let us gather our pills & swallow all regrets with a kiss

cover each other then weave

dreams of another day

to come.”

-Assoto Saint, Life Partners