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“Nacirema Requiem” Sneak Preview

“Armando?”

Said young man snapped out of his reverie (or rather, his umpteenth argument with Amanda, the young woman he shared his body with) and stared into the concerned eyes of Melina. “Sorry, lost in thought after last night,” he said apologetically.

“Are you okay? You look a bit out of it. Come to think of it, you look like you’ve been at odds with yourself lately,” Melina replied.

That’s because I AM at odds, but with a hardy and extremist-minded young woman from another version of Earth, Armando thought inwardly.

“I’m still here, you know that?” Amanda’s voice shot back before the Hispanic young man shoved her back.

Armando inhaled sharply. “It’s the planning of everything and all,” he said to Melina. “That, and with this being our senior year…it feels like every day is like we’re facing a lot of pressure.”

“Has Corwyn been haunting your dreams again?”

That statement gave Armando pause while Amanda took a great deal of interest. “Okay, this Corwyn girl is DEFINITELY like me, but what did she did to you?”

Armando shook his head, pushing Amanda to the back once again. “Not lately, but who knows what she’s planning? It’s getting a bit too quiet, and it means that she’ll be ready to strike once again.”

Melina nodded, reaching towards him and patting his back twice as they exited her car. “If you wanna talk more about her or get something off your chest, I’m here for you…and Tybee,” she replied, a bit of Salgiel slipping in her voice.

Sure enough, the first night of the mandatory breeding period had come and gone. Most of the students were hanging out with either their friends, their opposite-sex pairs, or a bit of both. Others were milling around the parking lot and shooting the breeze. For Armando, however, his mind was not only filled with Amanda’s presence but also of his concern that he wasn’t going to last long with the deceased young woman still acting passively defiant about the new world she was to endure for the thirty-day trial period.

Armando knew that Amanda felt grossed out from last night, but he was loyal to the cause as a Nacireman citizen. And gentle reader, he knew that Amanda didn’t have enough time on her hands. The more she wanted to defy the odds, the more at risk she was for hell. And he wasn’t going to let her or Corwyn get the best of him.

“I wonder where Ryan and Ariah could be?” Melina asked as she looked around. “I know that the bus that you two would take hadn’t arrived yet.”

That’s what I’d like to know myself, Amanda responded snidely.

“I’m sure that Ryan’s dads want them to have a big breakfast together,” he answered.

The two didn’t have to wait longer for the two teens to arrive, Armando’s eyes going wide with amazement as he took in Ryan being dressed in a form fitting bright-blue shirt with a V-neck collar and beige jeans that highlighted the diver’s legs perfectly. A pair of blue-and-white Converse sneakers and leaf-shaped pendant necklace completed the look. But what caught Armando off-guard was how Ryan felt more and more relaxed and at ease with himself, Ariah (dressed in a simple pink sundress with white tennis shoes) walking with him hand-in-hand as if they were crowned royalty.

Most of the students and teachers thought that the two friends were glowing after last night’s sexual escapade.

Armando, however, knew the truth. And so did a now-livid Amanda who was ready to show herself through her male counterpart. “What is this?!”

“That, Amanda, is your Ryan and my Ryan now fused as one,” Armando said inwardly before pushing her to the background and approaching his godbrother. “Bro, I know that you’re not turning straight on me, right?”

Ryan smirked. “And forget about our times together, even when we’re supposed to be studying? Not on your life,” he said. “You know the motto, bro. Equality and tradition.”

“Until the day we die,” Ariah and Melina finished in unison.

“Come on, you guys,” Armando stated good-naturedly. “We don’t wanna be late for homeroom. Let’s go to class.”

Amanda, on the other hand, was itching to break free and read the now-consolidated Ryan for filth. That bastard owes me some answers, she said as she let her male counterpart take over the wheel. Who does he think he is? He can’t be going through with this, right? Right? 

You’ll never forget the first time! “Nacirema Requiem” is back with new updates, available EXCLUSIVELY on Wattpad! Don’t miss it! 

“The Guardian of Couture” Teaser Promo, Part One

Couture Magazine isn’t just a fashion bible — it’s a battleground. Behind the glossy covers and celebrity spreads lies a world where interns are tested beyond coffee runs and copy machines. From clogged toilets to 24/7 on-call chaos, survival means shedding illusions and stepping into the fire.

But the real test? The Primal Premiere. That’s when the staff — those impossibly beautiful, retro-glasses-wearing editors — reveal their true selves. And if you’re not ready for what’s underneath, you’re not ready for Couture.

I should know. I lived it.

My name is Alcide Lancaster. I survived the summer internship that changed everything — spandex, secrets, Fashion Week madness, and the September Issue. I uncovered a legacy my grandparents once protected, one my family rejected. But I embraced it, with allies, love, and legends by my side.

This is my story.

You’ll never forget the first time.
Exclusively on Wattpad, hitting the runway May 2026. Don’t miss it!

Toni Morrison would have been 95 today.

Dr Dre is 61 today.

Audre Lorde would have been 92 today.

John Travolta is 72 today.

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This new 2025 monograph by Grant Matthew Jenkins examines the avant-garde stance and methods of Black American poets in #poetry since 1980 with a focus on their portrayal of the Other

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Nuzo Onoh (born 22 September 1962)

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Service to Empire
a play by Maud Sulter

National Galleries Scotland present the first abridged rehearsed reading from Maud Sulter’s play SERVICE TO EMPIRE. Directed & abridged by Adura Onashile & co-curated with Mother Tongue. The reading is followed by a Q&A

9/9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83luy9rmu38

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“I Name Myself Zami”
Maud Sulter’s Queer Form
Susannah Thompson, Scottish Literary Review 16/1, 2024

Available free on Open Access via Project MUSE

8/9

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/243/article/930915

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Maud Sulter: Passion
Her Work and Legacy

This website showcases her legacy, featuring exhibitions, events & publications to the present. It is curated & maintained on behalf of the Estate of Maud Sulter.

7/9

https://maudsulterpassion.wordpress.com

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Being written out of history can happen to you… No one will document our future but ourselves.
—Maud Sulter, “Call and Response” (1988)

Tomiwa Folorunso & Natasha Thembiso Ruwona draw on Maud Sulter’s essay “Call and Response” to discuss the making of their 2022 film “maud”

6/9

https://www.greatergovanhill.com/latest/in-response

#Scottish #literature #poem #poet #poetry #photography #MaudSulter #BPOC #Blackwriters #womenwriters #Scotland #Ghana #film

“Sulter’s creative work encourages us to think of the Scottish African field as offering a fresh perspective on writing, identity and community.”

Maud Sulter: Passion, by Deborah Cherry, includes Sulter’s images & poetry—reviewed here by Esraa Husein

5/9

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2020/12/maud-sulter-passion-by-deborah-cherry/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poet #poetry #photography #MaudSulter #BPOC #Blackwriters #womenwriters #Scotland #Ghana

As a black woman
the bearing of my child
is a political act…

—Maud Sulter, “As a Black Woman”
Published in As a Blackwoman: Poems 1982–1985 (Akira Press, 1985)

4/9

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Maud Sulter was born in Glasgow, of Scots & Ghanaian descent: her poem “Circa 1930” argues that these two cultures “are not as disparate as they might / at first seem. Clan-based societies / With long memories and global diasporas.”

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https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poet/maud-sulter/

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☝️📷: self-portrait of Maud Sulter as Jeanne Duval, the mistress of Charles Baudelaire, representing Calliope. From “Zabat”, a series of portraits of creative black women by Sulter, showing each woman as one of the 9 Muses. The series is held by the V&A

2/9

https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O134377/calliope-photograph-sulter-maud/

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On leaving
you playfully punched
my left
shoulder.

The sensation
remains

But your
voice fades

The sensation
remains
But your
image fades

I
short of breath
tremble

I think
you’ve
cracked
a
rib.

—“Gone but Not Forgotten”, by Maud Sulter (1960–2008)
born #OTD, 19 Sep – a 🎂 🧵

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A POWERFUL TWIST ON THE GOTHIC novel recasts the idea of a malicious and deadly house through prisms of race, class, gender, neurodiversity, and disability. Raw and elegant prose grapples with the nature of love, hate, and identity. A MINUS

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/model-home-rivers-solomon/1144629519?ean=9780374607135

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