Midnight passage over water. Blushing strawberry moon.A litany of stars reflecting the deep blue story curving into my Black body.I hope to see my mother on the other side. Here is a coffin to mold into a boatto lay inside. So many of us chose freedom. Chose the bottom of the sea. The country thatgives […]
Author Archives: Katelyn Rivas
Katelyn Durst Rivas (she/they) is a poet, essayist, researcher, teaching artist and mother who examines themes of Black girlhood, transracial adoption, motherhood, abolition and care for Black bodies through their work. She completed an MA from Eastern University in Urban Studies and Community Arts and has a BA in English and Writing and Art and Design from Northern Michigan University. In 2019, she published the chapbook “Radical Self-Care for Black Women” and founded the Detroit chapter of The Free Black Women’s Library. She is currently at work on a memoir that is about their experience as a transracial adoptee composing their own definition of Blackness where she weaves personal and political narratives through braided essays that combine prose, verse and Black Feminist reproductive rights issues.