Somebody's Praying For You, Baby
For the past few months, I’ve been co-writing a poetry collection with the great, Joél Leon (we haven’t sold the manuscript yet, so this is news to most).
In Retrospect with Frederick Joseph
This is a space for reflection and reckoning. It looks at the world and the self in the same breath, tracing how culture, power, politics, and personal experience collide to shape who we are. Each piece seeks clarity in the chaos, finding meaning
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Before the Cake, the Ledger
On America’s 250th birthday, reflecting on the debt this country still owes.
A Bullet for a Box of Diapers
On the police killing of one-year-old, Kohen Wiley.
Something Good Left
Juneteenth marks the day when the news of emancipation finally reached enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas, more than two years after freedom had already been declared.
The Architecture of the Cage
Delaney Hall, state violence, and bipartisan obedience that keeps the machine running.
The New York Times Asked Me About Masculinity
A few years ago, I wrote Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood, a book that emerged from a question I had been carrying for years: what does patriarchy actually do to us?
Against Indifference
On mutual aid, exhaustion, and fighting to keep one another here.
The Drama: The Mercy of Intervention
What the Drama understands about violence, morality, and the young people we abandon.
Become Unusable
I wrote the poem below because I have grown tired of being summoned.
Extending Women’s History Month
I’m going to keep this short.