‘Everywhere in the World They Hurt Little Black Girls’
— jayy dodd
I found myself returning to this poem by Tafisha A. Edwards after its publication in the fall. While the necessary declaration of #BlackGirlMagic rang throughout 2016, it is also these moments of a more tenuous magic that need to be archived. ‘Everywhere in the World They Hurt Little Black Girls’ is a mediation on subtlety & ritual. Its repetition conjures a tragic blossoming; a mantra becoming a warning. Part of Winter Tangerine’s ‘Love Letters to Spooks’ feature, this poem is accompanied by a recorded reading by Edwards, creating a pleasant insight to the sonic labor of the poem.