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The uncommitted campaign showed the Democratic party ignores Gaza at its peril

Nov 18, 2024 | msn.com | Camonghne Felix

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The uncommitted campaign showed the Democratic party ignores Gaza at its peril | Camonghne Felix

Nov 18, 2024 | theguardian.com | Camonghne Felix

In the days following the 2024 election, a cadre of pundits have been eager to call the uncommitted voters’ impact on the presidential race both a failure and a significant factor in Vice-President Kamala Harris’s loss. Despite those contradicting analyses, the movement’s success lies not in its voter count, but rather in the clarity it offered voters, even those who changed their minds and chose to vote for Harris in the end.
On Revising Our Relationships to Power

May 28, 2024 | camonghne.substack.com | Camonghne Felix

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Two Poems - Boston Review

Apr 26, 2024 | bostonreview.net | Camonghne Felix

There was an order. Each daya cup of water, yellow lighta bowl made dense with cowryshells, two spoons of whatevergoes into my mouth. I wantedto resist the contours ofreverence, wanted not to bea woman of tiny reason, wanted timeto come to me but it had to be donelike this, though troublesome, ithad to be my hand in the rivermy body laid down undressedmy being the source of my ownwelcome, my owntheory of disbelief.
At the Door of Integration, I Turned Around

Apr 9, 2024 | thenation.com | Camonghne Felix

Poems / Ad PolicyThis article appears in the April 2024 issue. Louder still from the choirof the Black Madonna, the treble linebeat blue with the drumming hauntsof incalculable betrayal, too devianta lie to unbraid. Even at my dreary ends,the lasts of me spread across 3000 seasons,I still got a bell built for humming, that hymn ofrepetition an infinite note to God. You thinkI worry about beauty? By design,I come back twice. Undeadimperium, the only idols I’ve got leftcan’t be seen.
Why Jonathan Majors Keeps Talking About Coretta Scott King

Jan 11, 2024 | thecut.com | Camonghne Felix

Photo: SHANNON STAPLETON/REUTERS “I am a great man,” Jonathan Majors tells his then-girlfriend Grace Jabbari in an audio recording that was played at his trial after he was charged with assaulting her. “I am doing great things.” Majors’s appearance has changed in some subtle but noticeable ways since he started appearing in court in November.
Celebrate Pride: 20 Recent Fiction and Nonfiction Releases by Powell's Staff

Jun 19, 2023 | powells.com | Marisa Crane |Camonghne Felix |Mattie Lubchansky |Zain Khalid

This year for Pride, we're celebrating by highlighting some recent fiction and nonfiction that our booksellers have loved that engage with and celebrate the LGBT experience. The books on this list are filled with queer resistance and raw honesty, complicated histories and unexpected heartaches, sexual upheavals and small towns with secrets.
Camonghne Felix on the Gentle Balance of Writing about Trauma

Feb 17, 2023 | newsbreak.com | Camonghne Felix

The following first appeared in Lit Hub’s The Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Trauma is a sneaky beast. She shows up in our lives ...
Camonghne Felix on the Gentle Balance of Writing about Trauma

Feb 17, 2023 | lithub.com | Camonghne Felix

The following first appeared in Lit Hub’s The Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Trauma is a sneaky beast. She shows up in our lives unexpectedly, and no one can evade her. Some of us spend most of our lives believing that we are safe, considered and valued—then trauma shows up (the death of a parent, an intense break up), and those things no longer seem true. It is disruptive, defining, and universal.
Camonghne Felix on Humiliation, Trauma and Finding Comfort in Computers

Feb 16, 2023 | lithub.com | Camonghne Felix

The exact first time I touched a computer I can’t recall, but in the heavy-wooded armoire of my mind I can find stacks of them, every single one built by my mother, nearly from scratch—constructing motherboards memory by memory, that lockbox of formulaic intent humming with the blood of her calculated intellect.