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About RogueNegro.com

This blog is an experiment in radical transparency about race, class, gender, and sexuality. I attempt to convey openly and faithfully my experience as a black queer cis-female polyamorist who cares passionately about social justice, self-growth, education, and intimacy.

Won’t You Celebrate With Me

won’t you celebrate with me
what i have shaped into
a kind of life? i had no model.
born in babylon
both nonwhite and woman
what did i see to be except myself?
i made it up
here on this bridge between
starshine and clay,
my one hand holding tight
my other hand; come celebrate
with me that everyday
something has tried to kill me
and has failed.

--Lucille Clifton

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Recent Posts

  • Who Has Looted Who?
  • A Few Words For You, Inspired By Your Survival
  • Two Weeks After The Presidential Election of Men Who Want Me Dead
  • #YesAllWomen and #YesAllMen
  • I Am Very Lucky. I Have Never Been Raped.
  • When You Can’t Call The Police Because They Might Kill Somebody
  • I Paused To Watch Terence Crutcher Die
  • We Are All Criminals. No One Deserves To Be A Slave.
  • I Advocate for Hope, Because Hopelessness Does the Oppressors’ Work For Them
  • A Taxonomy of Grief, In the Wake of the Orlando Queer Massacre
  • Before This Week, I Have Never Felt Afraid for My Life as a Queer Person the Way I Have Routinely as a Woman and as a Black Person
  • An Open Letter to My Straight Friend N. In the Wake of the Orlando Massacre of Queer Brown People Like Me
  • I Am Not Your Rent-A-Negro
  • Politeness is a Strategy for People With Less Power to Remain Safe From Further Harm by People With More Power
  • Play: I Call My Brothers
  • When You Are Living In Circumstances of Systemic Oppression, Just Surviving is an Act of Resistance (There is No Right Way)
  • We Live in a Country in Profound Denial About The Nature Of Itself
  • Article: Dating While Fat, by Ashleigh Shackelford
  • I Invite Us All to a Greater Level of Racial Honesty
  • Recite it the Way Black People Can Recite White People’s Stories Like The Back of Our Hands
  • I Cannot Ignore the Pangs of My Own Conscience Without Harm to Myself (and Neither, I Think, Can You)
  • White People Don’t Let White People Spout White Nonsense a.k.a. No Ignorant White Person Left Behind
  • The Necessity of Rest and the Discipline of Hope in the Social Justice Movement
  • This is a Snuff Film, Courtesy of Your Local Police Department
  • Forgiveness is Not for the Forgiven, but for the Forgiver
  • For the Love of Black People, Stop Posting Confederate Flags on Articles Appealing to Remove Confederate Flags From Public Places
  • I Feel Stronger For Offering What Resistance I Can
  • Dear White People . . . Stop Killing Black People.
  • Please Look For The Blindfold Covering Your Eyes. Then Remove It.
  • All Power to All the People
  • The Median White Family is 20 Times Wealthier Than the Median Black Family.
  • “Handsy” = The “Cutesy” of Sexual Predation
  • Prison is for Poor Black Men, Right? Not Educationally Privileged White Women.

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Recommended Reading

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The following are lists of books, articles, and websites that I have found useful and that I often recommend to people looking to learn more about these topics.

Recommended Reading: The Black Experience

Recommended Reading: Polyamory

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