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MONSTERA ...

is a forest refuge where Black folk can create knowing the sky of support is whole, dark, & enveloping.
is the moss growing on the north side of trees—a map stamped with rogue footsteps—guiding Black folk to collective liberation through the wild terrain of life.
is rooted in Black Feminism & acknowledges that “Black woman’s bodies can’t be divorced from the theories they produce” (A Voice From the South by Anna J. Cooper). As such, we invoke the Grandmothers who always pulled you aside & said let me put a lil something in your hand. We invoke the Sunday dinners where you broke bread, never went hungry, & had plenty to take home. We invoke the I’d give anything for you baby sentiments & the tight hugs that linger as you are sent along your way.
is an air purifier helping Black Poets b r e a t h e & be well while enabling, through the centering disability justice, Poets to create a rich habitat to sprawl across & call home.
is a sprawling unrestricted guaranteed income program that stretches beyond the imposed boundaries & carved borders of the Poets justifying their labor & time in traditional grant applications. Poets have been touched & in turn move us. So we unabashedly trust the expression of how their work made the water wave from the loving folks beside them. MONSTERA trusts the waters wave enough to wade in, lapping over the shore to return/give/share again.
acknowledges that Poets, naturally as human beings, are a part of the natural world. Thus our Black Feminist & anti-colonial values intersect with Black Feminist Ecologies centering the collective living world.
detest the Western knowledge system of providing who, what, when, where, why, & how before giving Poets permission to wonder & wander. MONSTERA believes the more we wander the more we wonder & lets what rises to the surface become the ledger of time. MONSTERA empowers Poets to wander, wonder & create without needing a preamble of what they anticipate to find.
acknowledges darkness as a blanket of protection ensuring sustainability, community, & self-sufficiency.
uplifts Black Poets who are on the verge of precarity whose work & very being are almost incinerated by the blinding light of “white supremacist capitalist patriarchy” (bell hooks).
is a nutrient-rich fertile ground for Black Poets to root & find support for their growth otherwise disregarded from being forced to learn to lean towards the blinding withering light.

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