SLINGSHOT (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Cyrée Jarelle Johnson | knygos.lt

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*Author is a Creative Writing Teaching Fellow (Columbia University), and has been Instruction Librarian (The AIDS Library of Philadelphia FIGHT), Transcribez Youth Writing Program (University of Pennsylvania), Harriet Tubman Collective, Founding Member (2016-Present), Black Lives Matter (Philadelphia, 2014-2015), Poetry Out Loud (2006, 2007), New Jersey Orators (1994-2007)
*Author received Global Arts Fund Grant from the Astraea Foundation in 2017 for the creation of works about black struggles for liberation. Parts of SLINGSHOT were created with support from this grant. Author also received an Environment and Climate Change Literary Fellowship from CultureStrike in 2016 for the creation of a machine of mahogany and bronze in its initial form. Parts of SLINGSHOT were created with support from this grant.
*Author was a chapter lead in Black Lives Matter Philadelphia, and a great deal of this work is about my misgivings around organizing and activism as I have seen it done and what that means for our movements for justice. They were also involved in Occupy Oakland.
*The author was a sex worker and has done sex worker activism since their early twenties and was also a member of the first cohort of the Sex Worker Giving Circle, the first ever sex worker and former sex worker led fundraising circle by a major non-profit in the United States, through Third Wave Fund.
*The author is a seer and tarot card reader from a line of seers.
*The author lives with Lupus and an Autism Spectrum Disorder and does disability justice work, mostly through writing but also with Harriet Tubman Collective, for which they are a founding member and with organizations like DANT. They spoke at Whitney Museum in 2017 and 2018 about disability justice. They are a Disabled Writers Fellow at Rewire News.
*This is an anti-FOSTA/SESTA legislation book.
*Of particular interest to Leftist black people of any age. Queers and trans people.
*Themes: Manhood--the rejection of manhood, desire for men, desire to be a man/not be a man, fear of men, male violence. Sex--sexual addiction, sex work, casual sex, sexual power exchanges. The woods/The beast/The wildness--