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geryone · 4 months

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The Repetition of the Wound, Khadijah Queen

#quotes #poetry #quote #poem #Khadijah Queen #id in alt text

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othellho · 7 months

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— "Season of Grief", Khadijah Queen

#poetry #Khadijah Queen #on grief

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heartmailbox · 1 year

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undoing, khadijah queen

#khadijah queen

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ukdamo · 7 months

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Season of Grief

Khadijah Queen

My grandmother sat at the head of her oak table one Labor Day afternoon & in a lull turned to me & said all the people I knew are dead. When she fixed those two words, I knew,

I felt my heart in the world beat its blood through thin chambers. The constant rush still interrupts the body I didn’t make, but keep breathing somehow & functioning until I can’t, & the night before she died, I felt the easing of her spirit,

& the same when my aunt died the year before. I still say to my still-grieving cousin I’m here—an echo of her mother’s absence, & we are left together on this side of unknowing, stack like throwing bricks

all the finite seasons we have & will spend without them. Up against my own lifetime I wish for fog, early morning. Instead, unpredictable years keep emptying.

#poetry #family #loss #death #grief #khadijah queen

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romanbathhhouse · 2 years

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Nothing earth about you except what clean is visible Also your hands

#Khadijah Queen

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manwalksintobar · 2 years

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In the Event of an Apocalypse, Be Ready to Die // Khadijah Queen

But do also remember galleries, gardens, herbariums. Repositories of beauty now ruin to find exquisite—

the untidy, untended loveliness of the forsaken, of dirt-studded & mold- streaked treasures that no longer belong to anyone alive, overrunning

& overflowingly unkempt monuments to the disappeared. Chronicle internally the heroes & mothers, artisans who went to the end of the line,

protectors & cowards. Remember when pain was not to be seen or looked at, but institutionalized. Invisible, unspoken, transformed but not really transformed. Covered up with made-up valor or resilience.

Some people are not worth saving, no one wants to say, but they say it in judgment. They say it in looking away. They say it in staying safe in a lane created by someone afraid of losing ground, thinking

I doubt we’re much to look at, as we swallow what has to hurt until we can sing sharp as blades. Aiming for the sensational

as we settle for the ordinary when avoiding evidence of suffering at all costs, & cherish the opportunity to reach clone-like into the ground as aspen roots, or slide feet first down a soft slope, wet, cold, but the faith to fall toward the unseen, against the bleak of most

memory, call it elusive. Call it the fantasy to end all fantasies, a waiting fatality, the wreck of both education & habit.

We could watch ourselves lose it all. There’s a chance.

#poetry #Khadijah Queen #apocalypse #beauty #America

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louisbxne · 6 months

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Living Single 1x15 - "Living Kringle" (1993) Dir. Ellen Gittlesohn

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behbita · 1 year

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Queen Latifah as Khadijah James in

LIVING SINGLE S1 EP14 “BURGLAR IN THE HOUSE”

#referencing their real life persona- i love it every time idc #living single #queen latifah #khadijah james #kim fields #regine hunter #tvedit #tvgifs #televisiongifs #userstream #usersource #userbbelcher #chewieblog #90's #behbgifs

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bahrmp3 · 5 months

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[id: 3 gifs from season 1, episode 13 “love takes a holiday” from the tv series “living single”. the gifs show queen latifah as khadijah james, nia long as stacey evans. khadijah is sitting at her desk, while stacey is leaning over the desk. they are both reviewing photos. /end id]

#living single #queen latifah #khadijah james #nia long #livingsingleedit #tvedit #tvgifs #televisiongifs #userbbelcher #chewieblog #my stuff #mine*#mine**#living single*#this has been planned for a while? made for a while longer too

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alleannaharris · 11 months

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🎵in a 90’s kinda world, I’m glad I got my girls🎵

I haven’t shared this Living Single illustration in a while, so I wanted to share it again. I think I posted it in on my old art Tumblr, but I deleted that account, so here it is on my ✨new official art Tumblr✨

I illustrated this in 2016. Seven years ago. (SEVENNNN *gasp*) It was one of the first prints I put in my Etsy store.

Forever a favorite.

(It’s available as a print here, btw.)

#living single #khadijah james #maxine shaw #regine hunter #synclaire james #queen latifah #erika alexander #kim fields #kim coles #illustrators on tumblr #artists on tumblr #black women art #drawing while black #kidlitart #fan art

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retropopcult · 1 year

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The cast of Living Single, 1993

#Terrance C. Carson #Erika Alexander #Kim Fields #Queen Latifah #Kim Coles #John Henton #sitcom #Kyle Barker #Maxine Felice Shaw #Regine Hunter #Khadijah #Synclaire #Overton Wakefield #1990s

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notchainedtotrauma · 1 year

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“I want to bow down with my arms breaking earth until it grows more delicious than shaved dimes between my grandmother’s teeth”

from NJ Transit Passenger Ode by Khadijah Queen

from top left to bottom right: Lucie Fox, Nydia Blas, Adrienne Raquel, Naima Green, Adrienne Raquel, Melissa Alcena, Naima Green, Adrienne Raquel, Adrienne Raquel, Adrienne Raquel

#Khadijah Queen #Lucie Fox #Nydia Blas #Adrienne Raquel #Melissa Alcena #Naima Green

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yemme · 6 months

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