Graphic from the cover of the June 2022 PRIDE issue of The Tea
Boi’s Blood is a nonfiction article with a poetic stanza on gender expansiveness and its connection to nature, published in the June 2022 PRIDE issue of The Tea, the magazine for The Movement of Black Lives.
Boi’s Blood
I am a boi who bleeds. This is a partial articulation. I am fire that bleeds. Earth that bleeds. I am a spitting split in the cosmos dripping myself onto myself from myself forever.
The words female and male are just that: Words. Concepts that were decided; roles that were formed based on observation then survival then ultimately by power. But they are not, nor have they ever been, rules. Let’s make this a matter of origin. As people like to do. This is a tale of life cycles after all. Before the stories, the societies, the mythologies, the rules, the binaries, there was nature.
I am a collection of consciousness in a constant state of knitting my fibers and fluids together as an ecstatic dance of existence! Everyone is womb all the time because we are creating ourselves in every moment.
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