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IN SOLIDARITY May all of this be a step towards building a newer, freer world. IN SOLIDARITY We all, no matter your identity, benefitted from the worlds and the works of queer people. They have shaped us without us even realizing. Ain’t that the most beautiful, gayest thing? IN SOLIDARITY Solidarity is profoundly simple at its core: should we ever find that our comfort is at the expense of someone else’s life, it becomes our responsibility to divorce from such comforts. IN SOLIDARITY I haven’t always had language for the practice, but I have often, in my growth as a writer, tried to choreograph a new thing out of a poem onto the page. IN SOLIDARITY I often compare gender to an occupation, because in many ways, it is such labor. IN SOLIDARITY Black History must, for us, be more than brief vignettes of fragmented storytelling of bus boycotts and voter rights. IN SOLIDARITY This month, consider what resources you find yourself in abundance of if you are not Black. And if you are, which resources this month are you reclaiming? IN SOLIDARITY Here’s the truth: This year, you’ve been through a lot. IN SOLIDARITY I believe we each have a fight, specific and distinct to us. I do not believe that toil begins or ends at the ballot box. IN SOLIDARITY I invite you to orient yourself toward justice, to move as one who believes that your freedom is inextricably linked to mine, and act beyond your comfort or convenience. 
To New Beginnings
Pride: A Retrospective
Free Black Gxrlz and Free Palestine
Poems as World Building and Necessary
Women’s History Month
Back to the Future
The Other Side of Imagination
On Resolutions
Vote, or...
With Liberty, and Justice, for All.
Aurielle Marie
Aurielle Marie is a Black and Queer poet, essayist, and cultural strategist surviving state violence. They are the author of Gumbo Ya Ya and the winner of the 2020 Cave Canem poetry prize. She is a movement journalism fellow with Scalawag Magazine, a former Lambda Literary Writer in Residence, and has received invitations to fellowships from Tin House, VONA, The Watering Hole and Kopkind. Their work has been featured in American Poetry Review, the Poem-a-Day series, The Slowdown with Ada Limon, Teen Vogue, and The Guardian. A genderqueer storyteller and community organizer, Aurielle writes about sex, bodies, systems, and The South from a Black Feminist lens. She is the 2022 winner of the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Poetry, and the 2022 Georgia Author of the Year for Poetry.
