"Fuck, It Feels Good" is a generative writing challenge inspired by Audre Lorde's "The Uses of the Erotic" and the things we need to say to our bodies. It is an explorative letter writing challenge on thinking and speaking about pleasure. This workshop will be facilitated by lois-soto lane minah (all pronouns), writer, translator, and immigrant flop. Write with us on Saturday, August 1st at 11:00am ET!
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About lois-soto:
lois-soto is a chronically-ill non-binary Black lesbian immigrant anarchist poet by way of Nigeria. She lives in Brooklyn where she works as a community organizer, peer sex educator and recently launched an archival histories project focusing on the lives of Black undocumented immigrants and Black trans/non-binary folk. Her work has appeared in several publications including Crossin’ Borders Magazine, Susie Mag, & Hooligan Mag.
What it means to be an “immigrant flop” from lois-soto:
“being an immigrant flop is about subverting the stereotype. in the liberal promise of immigration immigrants grow up to benefit the economy. they have trash childhoods but get into all the ivys on scholarship and graduate summa cum laude. they become doctors, they are poster children for why capitalism is a good and yielding thing. i went to community college, dropped out of my 4 year because I was too B L A C K and immigrant and i will probably never make this country any money. i am not the good immigrant stereotype. i’m a flop. and damn proud. that’s what i want for all immigrants, to be flops if they want to be. because we don’t come here to be economical leverage. we came to make our meanings known”