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Love and Resistance: A Creative Celebration of "Postcolonial Love Poem" by Natalie Díaz

Presented by DC Bushwick Book Club

2025-11-01 11:00:00 2025-11-01 12:00:00 America/New_York Love and Resistance: A Creative Celebration of "Postcolonial Love Poem" by Natalie Díaz In honor of Native and Indigenous People’s Month, join us for a powerful evening of music, poetry, film, and performance inspired by Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Díaz. This unique showcase features seven artists—including Native and two-spirit musician Georgie Jessup—sharing original work that explores themes of identity, love, resilience, and self-expression. Upper Marlboro - Large Meeting Room

Saturday, November 01
11:00am - 12:00pm

Add to Calendar 2025-11-01 11:00:00 2025-11-01 12:00:00 America/New_York Love and Resistance: A Creative Celebration of "Postcolonial Love Poem" by Natalie Díaz In honor of Native and Indigenous People’s Month, join us for a powerful evening of music, poetry, film, and performance inspired by Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Díaz. This unique showcase features seven artists—including Native and two-spirit musician Georgie Jessup—sharing original work that explores themes of identity, love, resilience, and self-expression. Upper Marlboro - Large Meeting Room

Upper Marlboro

Large Meeting Room

In honor of Native and Indigenous People’s Month, join us for a powerful evening of music, poetry, film, and performance inspired by Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Díaz. This unique showcase features seven artists—including Native and two-spirit musician Georgie Jessup—sharing original work that explores themes of identity, love, resilience, and self-expression.

Featured artists include Georgie Jessup, Kerri Sheehan, Susan Hwang, and more!

Postcolonial Love Poem is an anthem of desire against erasure. Natalie Diaz’s brilliant second collection demands that every body carried in its pages—bodies of language, land, rivers, suffering brothers, enemies, and lovers—be touched and held as beloveds. Through these poems, the wounds inflicted by America onto an indigenous people are allowed to bloom pleasure and tenderness: “Let me call my anxiety, desire, then. / Let me call it, a garden.” In this new lyrical landscape, the bodies of indigenous, Latinx, black, and brown women are simultaneously the body politic and the body ecstatic. In claiming this autonomy of desire, language is pushed to its dark edges, the astonishing dunefields and forests where pleasure and love are both grief and joy, violence and sensuality.
 

Diaz defies the conditions from which she writes, a nation whose creation predicated the diminishment and ultimate erasure of bodies like hers and the people she loves: “I am doing my best to not become a museum / of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out. // I am begging: Let me be lonely but not invisible.” Postcolonial Love Poem unravels notions of American goodness and creates something more powerful than hope—a future is built, future being a matrix of the choices we make now, and in these poems, Diaz chooses love. 

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