Yasmine Bolden
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Yasmine Bolden (they/them) is a poet, educator, bear hug enthusiast, and descendant of Black/Nahiłií women who heard the earth speaking to them through their gardens and lovingly spoke back. They grew up dancing ballet and writing against white supremacist mythology on the former plantation lands of United States President George Washington. Now, they study poetry and Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University, where they’ve performed in and later led the inaugural Rituals of Remembrance honoring the memory and legacy of those enslaved on what is now the undergraduate campus. Their poems and research are planted or forthcoming in ONLY POEMS’ Best New Poems, The National Library of Medicine, SAFTA’s Best of the Net Anthology, Black Earth Institute, Rootwork Journal, ALOCASIA, Vagina Museum, and other text-based garden plots. When they’re not writing, they adore dancing with their beloveds at kickbacks, céilíthe, and powwows.
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