Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Selfies and Agency


I'm also doing my own "protection spell" poetry be going through selfies I had taken with a mentor-friend who was dear to me until I found out he was making uninvited passes at colleagues, students, and other members of the poetry community. Through digital editing, I am taking the selfies I took, removing him from each photo, and replacing that space with a color and protective poem inside. I've been searching for a way to speak out against him, as well as not impose upon each survivor's agency, so through these selfies--my own agency-seeking--I am reclaiming my time of joy while excising him while asking for the protection of us all.

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