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Ming Washington 12/15/22 Ming Washington 12/15/22

laboring woman

orginal poem laboring woman after saidiya hartman in conversation with simone leigh, performed at Loophole of Retreat Venice

Ming Washington 12/1/20 Ming Washington 12/1/20

2 poems for Aunt Chloe

“when they say look at God like she just passed right in front of us” and “if the only evidence of Black womanhood were an abstract painting,” for Aunt Chloe Magazine W20

Image: Jennie C. Jones, Score for Sustained Blackness #4, 2014.