Watch and listen to this amazing poem Sistah by my friend Ami Mattison!
Ami Mattison is a queer, mixed raced, mixed-gender Chamorro poet and writer. She was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, adopted by white parents into a multi-racial family; and raised in Montgomery, Alabama. She lived in Atlanta, Georgia, for nearly two decades, and currently resides in Detroit, Michigan. Her work appears in Navigating Islands and Continents: Conversations and Contestations in and around the Pacific, The Very Inside: An Asian and Pacific Island Lesbian and Bisexual Women's Anthology, and Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art and Thought (Spring 2010). Author of a spoken word CD, Strange and Potent Mixture, she tours the U.S. giving performances, lectures, and workshops.
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