Holding Space for Me

Signed "Best, see you next year! Happy 2025!", new GCC dedicated Substack drop, & Nikki Giovvani being the baddest

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Let’s start with a moment of silence for poet-activist Nikki Giovvani; I don’t know what I would have done without her, Assotto Saint, Haruki Murakami, Layli Long Soldier, Suheir Hammad, Assia Djebar, Martín Espada, and Claudia Rankine’s words.

Nikki Giovanni’s interview with James Baldwin changed the way I see the world—and myself. In their …