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Khalisa Rae's Knee Length

Knee Length #5

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In Knee-Length, poet and journalist Khalisa Rae navigates the nuances of an inherited conservative legacy. Pulling from memories of her religious upbringing and education, family history, and matrilineal teachings, Knee Length is a history reimagined and excavated—a rebellious relearning of desire and respectability, family and faith.

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A Road

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“That along / the way we acquire and shed companions. That the sky / goes black at night and lights again in the morning–“