Where consciousness meets matter.
Our Mission
We center Black Queer Feminist Theory in our vision of liberation. While this framework may sound academic in nature, we recognize that shared knowledge is not limited to classrooms, and includes discourse through our music, museums, graffiti, social media platforms, memes, documentaries, and more. Nevertheless, our work is informed by the lived conditions reproduced in gendered labor, sexuality, care, and psychic survival. We value accessibility through pleasure, and create sound-based work that is felt and heard across bodies, through high frequencies, rhythm, pulse, timing, texture, repetition, and silence.
Echoes, vibrations, and instinct.
Moody Lion Poetry is a literary and artistic project founded by Imani Jeni. From the vision of an abolitionist organizer, survivor of gender-based violence, and writer, our ecosystem of creation is motivated by the desire to heal not only individual trauma, but generational pain that is masked by survival, rooted in ancestral bones, and buried in future resistance. Whether it’s a poem, haiku, prose, rap, instrumental, song, or wild in between, this entity exists as a breathing museum, living alongside our masterpieces.
No justice, no peace: we do this til we are free.
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♡ recommended reading: tenderness: a black queer meditation on softness and rage by Annika Hansteen-Izora
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