Poking the Bear's Belly for Fun
trE L. LoadholtLearning how to live while navigating a world without my dog Jernee, and still remembering how to be my vibrant, Black, overanalytically-thinking, creative, bisexual self—in the South.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 83 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 6 days ago |
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The Burden of Not Knowing Who You Are
Photo by Bave Pictures on Unsplash
Khair is a 17-year-old Junior at Westend Grove High School. He is the eldest of four children and his mother’s pride and joy. Daveed, his father, is a 36-year-old artist from Marseille, France, and his mo...
A Boy, His Dog, & Never Neverland
Courtesy of Bewheel via DeviantArt
My name’s Bebop. I live on Clowy Lane. My Mama is Thandie. She has a gapped-tooth smile, laughs like Santa, and smells like sweet potato pie. It’s just me and Mama — been this way now for six years. Don’t...
Mother
A photo collage of the mother who mothered me, and is still trying her best to do so to this day. In the photo of her and the baby, she is holding my baby cousin Caison, a few weeks after his birth (he is almost nine years old now). My moth...
Through Blood, I Am Yours
Over the Years. A few photos of my cousin, Akua, and I.
If someone told me I had to
Be without you, I’d be
D a m a g e d.
Time would lend no healing
Point—no marker for getting over
The grief that would come.
You give me a happ...
You Called Life, but Did It Answer?
Mourners, ©1956 Gordon Parks. National Gallery of Art (Free-to-Use)
I am not seaworthy.
Look how the fish mistake my hair for home.
in my younger years
before i learned
black people aren’t
suppose to dream
i wanted to be
a r...
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I am more than breath & bones. I am nectar in waiting. "You write like a jagged, beautiful dream." ©Martha Manning
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