Poem

Porsha Olayiwola

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MARGARET GARNER CROSSES THE OHIO RIVER

MARGARET GARNER STEEKT DE OHIO RIVER OVER

MARGARET GARNER CROSSES THE OHIO RIVER

Porsha Olayiwola

(United States of America, 1988)

The electric slide is how we leave here, how we ascend. This kinship is how we get to a place named joy, and go home. That's blood, history, man. Ain’t no teaching that.

American performer, writer and teacher Porsha Olayiwola uses Afrofuturism and surrealism to explore historical and contemporary themes. Those themes often relate to the experiences of the black, female, queer diaspora in th...