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kenyetta

pirate honey

About Me

i am a tropicalista fashionista who enjoys cannibalizing culture, and in the hopes of presenting a feminized sports aesthetic, i prefer wearing silk jumpsuits (with shoulder pads of course). i also enjoy getting papercuts from reading nascent theory on african dialects of experience. and one day, i would like to be immortalized as a comic book superhero with special powers (teleportation and flight preferably). i work in cultural museums and frequently dine on hood cuisine such as chinese fried chicken wings, and hot corned beef sandwiches on rye bread, toasted, with mustard only please.

My Interests

african popular arts, post-keynesian economics, curatorial research, world heritage, pretty girls, nerds, anti-heroes, innovative enterprise, african photonovellas and coded classic blues anthems that are deliciously sapphic

I'd like to meet:

mystical creatures, solid gold dancers and black barbies

Music:

amy winehouse, coupé-décalé (côte d’ivoire), makossa (cameroon), anita baker, boards of canada, steely dan, doobie brothers, alpha blondy, pevin everett, vikter duplaix, jephte guillaume, abbey lincoln, luther vandross, charley pride, ruby falls, tv on the radio, nigerian highlife, ella fitgerald, komputer

Movies:

dreamgirls, a brother from another planet, i'm gonna get you sucka, dark crystal, cosmic slop trilogy, def by temptation, omega man, hip-hop b-movies, nollywood cinema, cornbread, earl and me, the last unicorn and the secret of nimh

Television:

ny 1 in the morning with a dbl espresso and sammy (my roomate's adorable rat terrier), boondocks, degrassi jr. high (80s version), anderson cooper: 360 degrees, voltron, in living color, BET jazz, late night with conan o'obrien and the very gay LOGO network

Books:

octavia butler's xenogenesis trilogy, stars in my pockets like grains of sand (samuel delany), le corps lesbien and les guérrillères (monique wittig), the handmaid's tale (margaret atwood), school days (patrick chamoiseau), global shadows: africa in the neoliberal world order (james ferguson), shoveling smoke: advertising and globalization in contemporary india (william mazzarella), congolese national cultural policy

Heroes:

chikwenye ogunyemi, ousseynou wade, john middleton, michelle gilbert, huey freeman and the brown hornet

My Blog

sleep deprivation does wonders

another damn prose poem.  maybe the next one will be slightly more political. no wait, i mean apolitical.  oh hell, who the fuck cares.   untitled in the company of dawn and dancing c...
Posted by kenyetta on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 02:55:00 PST

breaking the hiatus

not too keen of the whole blog thing, but it's been years since i wrote a poem. this one is a product of a caffeinated all-nighter and imported french cigarettes. fuck, i need to do homework...uugghhh...
Posted by kenyetta on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 02:48:00 PST