Black Queer Hoe
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Women’s sexuality is often used as a weapon against them. In this refreshing, unapologetic debut, award-winning performance poet and playwright Britteney Black Rose Kapri lends her unmistakable voice to fraught questions of identity, sexuality, reclamation, and power in a world that refuses black queer women permission to define their own lives and boundaries. Black Queer Hoe is a powerful intervention into important and ongoing conversations.
“In a debut crackling with energy, honesty, and wit, Kapri moves to reclaim elements of language surrounding women’s sexuality, especially that of black women . . . Kapri assails the ways social norms are routinely used to blame girls and women for the moral failures of boys and men. Embracing the intimacy of a confessional and the sting of a viral tweet, Kapri unabashedly celebrates the various facets of her self and refuses to serve as anyone’s martyr.” —Publishers Weekly
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Black Queer Hoe - Britteney Black Rose Kapri
BLACK QUEER HOE
The Breakbeat Poets Series
The BreakBeat Poets series, curated by Kevin Coval and Nate Marshall, is committed to work that brings the aesthetic of hip-hop practice to the page. These books are a cipher for the fresh, with an eye always to the next. We strive to center and showcase some of the most exciting voices in literature, art, and culture.
BreakBeat Poets Series titles include:
The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop, edited by Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana, and Nate Marshall
This is Modern Art: A Play, Idris Goodwin and Kevin Coval
The Breakbeat Poets Vol II: Black Girl Magic, edited by Mahogany Browne, Jamila Woods, and Idrissa Simmonds
Human Highlight, Idris Goodwin and Kevin Coval
On My Way to Liberation, H. Melt
Citizen Illegal, José Olivarez
The Breakbeat Poets Vol III: Halal if You Hear Me, edited by Fatimah Asghar and Safia Elhillo
There are Trans People Here, H. Melt
Commando, E’mon Lauren
© 2018 Britteney Black Rose Kapri
Published in 2018 by
Haymarket Books
P.O. Box 180165
Chicago, IL 60618
773-583-7884
www.haymarketbooks.org
info@haymarketbooks.org
ISBN: 978-1-60846-953-6
Trade distribution:
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In Canada, Publishers Group Canada, www.pgcbooks.ca
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This book was published with the generous support of Lannan Foundation and Wallace Action Fund.
Printed in Canada by union labor.
Cover design by Rachel Cohen. Cover photograph, Nadiyah (2017) by Maya Iman. www.mayaiman.com
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data is available.
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contents
Foreword by Danez Smith
tindr
reasons imma Hoe
zaddy
bad feminist
shawty with the ass
open letter to the mothers who shield their daughters from looking at me
an incomplete list: of women i should apologize to
what raych means when she says Biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitch
before they can use it against you
Bitch
real women have
Queer enough
pansexual
to every nigga that told me their dick belonged to me
to every nigga i ever yelled out this pussy is yours
to, you welcome
to the nigga who tweeted we need to stop glorifying fat people
while secretly receiving my nudes behind his girlfriend’s back
the day my nudes