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e nina jay

i am worth more than what can be done to my body...

About Me

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My Interests

writing, painting, thinking, reading, learning, healing

I'd like to meet:

thinkers ~ rebels ~ nerds ~ survivors ~ artists ~ human beings who love to be human beings

Music:

anythang that makes me feel something passionately..

Books:

only a few of the many authors/writers i need, therefore adore...audre lorde anita cornwell jamaica kincaid becky birtha asha bandele bell hooks toni morrison charlotte pierce baker

Heroes:

sojourner truth harriet tubman aishah shahidah simmons audre lorde pat parker sakia gunn sister ii sister (young sisters of NY? phenomenal!) YWAT (young women's action team - chicago) jamaica kincaid the womyn before rosa parks beth richie assata shakur jackie anderson juanita stone ada m clay toni morrison vickie sides phyllis pennese charlotte pierce baker deborah benford chris smith c c carter wynne smith kizzy from roots sophia from the color purple fannyann eddy

My Blog

she wishes for water...

  she wishes for water   deep deep depth rise above face on body she ain't afraid of drowning she needs to feel she could drown   or else why would she even swim?...
Posted by e nina jay on Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:01:00 PST

at play...

he laughs he has a gun he pulls it he points it at her head he pulls the trigger   the bullet is released the bullet flies the bullet whizzes the bullet hits skin flesh bone the bullet...
Posted by e nina jay on Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:15:00 PST

uncomfortable...

if video doesn't come up on its own... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBxelIcEw7M thankful to jill scott for recording this poetry... which i know as the best kind of art beca...
Posted by e nina jay on Mon, 22 Sep 2008 01:05:00 PST

me with some music...

some time ago i did a project with some womyn/sisters i love very much... we gathered in a studio built in a room of an apartment of this other lesbian sister we know... INNOVATIVE anyway... we were ...
Posted by e nina jay on Tue, 16 Sep 2008 04:46:00 PST

today we...

attended memorials listened to songs remembered we cried bought flowers and maybe balloons made statues of stone wrote poems in the ink of blood painted pictures with body parts we do a whole lot of...
Posted by e nina jay on Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:22:00 PST

crooked love thoughts...

maybe i'll try love again tomorrow... not today it's hard to mend a crack in the heart at the computer but i will try 'cause it is close to breaking again should have maste...
Posted by e nina jay on Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:10:00 PST

loving chrystos...

"Telling the truth is a powerful medicine.   It is a fire that lights the way for others.   When we speak our 'Fire Power' we join a long  &  honored line of warriors agai...
Posted by e nina jay on Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:32:00 PST

the washing...

when the poems can run wet like tears&   washes me like a waterfall leaving everything that clings to me in the pool at my feet now smiling   'cause i remember now that i always know how to...
Posted by e nina jay on Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:29:00 PST

pain keeps me familiar...

she's depressed, she says she feels crazy, she says she is in pain&   i am familiar with her kind of pain pain powerful enough to make an old house settle in on itself locking in all the silence...
Posted by e nina jay on Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:27:00 PST

not totally numb... yet

'There is no room around me in which to be still, to examine and explore what pain is mine alone ~ no device to separate my struggle within from my fury at the outside world's viciousness, the stupi...
Posted by e nina jay on Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:12:00 PST