The Places We All Come From

Won't someone PLEASE think of the children?!

Hi there.

This is a poem I wrote after seeing Janelle Monae in concert. Her songs and performance inspired me for many reasons, but one is her lyrical openness and aesthetic embrace of sexuality, which might be considered radical, but it really shouldn’t be. Right now, I’m thinking of her song “Pynk,” in reference to all the pivotal body parts that colo…