Bettina Judd

Bettina Judd is a writer, artist, and performer. She is an Assistant Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality studies at the University of Washington, Seattle and teaches courses in Black feminist thought and Black women’s cultural production. Her first book of poems, PATIENT. won the Hudson Book Prize and is about the legacy of medical display and experimentation on Black women’s bodies.

INSIGHT

The Break

By BETTINA JUDD

you are the prize of the Ones

HERE/YOU ARE

On or about July 10, 2015¹

By BETTINA JUDD

“You are plowing through heartbreak, a cigarette between your fingers, the radio’s bass beating into your sternum”