Winter Tangerine

We are proud to present KINGFACE MIXTAPE, a new SPHINXX essay series by Calen Firedancing! Follow one Black queer poet’s trip through the past, present, and future. Our afflictions are chronically absurd; our poetics must be too. sphinxx.co/essay-series/k…

Today marks 30 years since the passing of my older brother. I visited his resting place during my trip to Saigon, Vietnam last year. Here is an essay my sister @anuonganuong wrote from @WTangerine called “Becoming A Butterfly”: wintertangerine.com/uong-butterfly🦋❤️🙏🏽

Hey Chicago! Anyone interested in being a social media consultant for a local community organization? Please send your resume, portfolio/website, cover letter along with rates to kelseydr@gmail.com. #blkcreativesjobs #reignydayjobs #blkcreatives #nowhiring

They criminalize the homeless so that they don’t have to house them. They criminalize drug addicts so that they don’t have to address substance abuse as a public health problem. They criminalize the poor so that they don’t have to address wealth inequality.

We don’t need to keep reforming slavery & all its various institutions. We don’t need to keep updating & refining the mechanisms of white capitalism so the owner class can continue its violent commodification & exploitation of Black people globally. The system itself must end.

Haymarket Books' (@haymarketbooks) reading list against policing and mass incarceration is an excellent resource, with select titles currently available for free: haymarketbooks.org/blogs/80-hayma…

here’s a master list of FREE Black revolutionary texts! educate + empower. docs.google.com/document/d/1aY…

I threw together a doc w/ links to pdfs/free downloads of essential books!!young folks that are out of school/work and may not have means to support financially or physically, please check some out!! remember to support @haymarketbooks and @NonameBooks!! docs.google.com/document/d/1El…

PDF FOR THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH BY FRANZ FANON: monoskop.org/images/6/6b/Fa…

With incredible joy, we announce the release of Deus Ex Nigrum by Jasmine Reid (@ireidjasmine)! Introduced by @Danez_Smif, this chapbook holds a speaker remapping her body, which travels from a site of betrayal to one of renewal. Read more & order here: buff.ly/2R7Vd01 🥰

The Winter Tangerine workshop in New York City last week was an adventure for my writing soul. I scrambled many parts of my being I never imagined. Thank you for everyone who made it possible @WTangerine #newyork #writing #writingcommunity #wintertangerine

Have you read our latest SPHINXX essay series, KINGFACE MIXTAPE, by calen firedancing? Check out firedancing's essay on Noni Blanco: insisting on the fissures in our understandings of gender, Blanco re-defines what it means to be militant in a rap song. sphinxx.co/essay-blog-pos…

Special thanks to @NadiaOwusu1 for always pushing me, and to @WTangerine & @nabilas_here for crafting a beautiful space in which I could call on to my grandmother & bring her witchy spirit into this poem!!!

I have two poems in @aaww! This past year has been about trying to write courageously, I'm still a scared little writer but these two poems opened up something in me!

Hey @MuzzleMagazine @WTangerine @ApogeeJournal @TinderboxPoetry @theoffingmag @canvaslit @adroitjournal & more, how are ya? BEST LITERARY MAGAZINES TO SUBMIT TO (AND READ): POETRY, STUDENT EDITION: theadroitjournal.org/2019/06/14/bes…

[The Bertha Vervain Series is open for submissions] Winners Recieve: $$$ / Copies of Zine & Broadside for Black Queer / Womxn writers: FREE TO SUBMIT DEADLINE JULY 1ST. dovesonglabs.net/bertha-vervain…

"Grief never leaves; it transforms." So happy to have gotten the chance to interview @solarshami for @WTangerine about her new book CITY OF PEARLS and talk about the role of quiet, the transmutation of grief, and how our senses connect us to lost homes. wintertangerine.com/ucp-shamealina…

“Sham-e-Ali Nayeem's debut poetry collection is a place for meditation, for memory, for the grief that's necessary to heal.” In our latest interview, Franny Choi speaks to Sham-e-Ali Nayeem about her new book, City of Pearls! Check it out here: wintertangerine.com/ucp-shamealina…