Written by Marian Yesufu👄 aka naughty Marian Y’all’s dicks are gonna get us annexed. That is the whole TED Talk. By China. By Russia. Spin the globe. Surprise. We lost. So welcome to the United States of Prussia. Same flag. New daddy. Powered by vibes and erections. It started as a joke. A dumb rap. An improv bit. Oogly googly. Everybody laughing because comedy is cheaper than reparations. Y’all’s dicks are gonna get us owned by Russia. Ha ha. So silly. So funny. Except why

Dear Ryan Coogler, Your work has deeply impacted my life as a storyteller, as a Black, dark-skinned woman who performs both on stage and on camera. It has been affecting me for some time, in the very best of ways. You did not begin with Black Panther for me. It actually started with Fruitvale Station. I remember sitting in the theater that day and learning that I could enjoy going to the movies by myself because of that film. It moved me in a profound way. I do not cry often.

By. Marian Yesufu “Avoid men and crowded places like your boyfriend’s heart.” —Milie Odhiambo, Kenyan Politician Introduction As an artist, the joy of merging scholarly writing and creative writing is what I am developing through this performance-based scholarly narrative. Pulling from journals, recorded audio journals, plays, and music written by me—and folding them into the

The mutilation of the Black mind begins at an early stage. It happens even before a child knows how to put words or sentences together, even before they learn the idea of critical thinking. The mutilation is a peeling at the soul—an insistence that you do not belong, that you will never belong, that you are not enough. It is so relentless that the soul begins to separate from itself, longing to be something else entirely. I have a five-year-old daughter with thick, luscious c