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is the author of the poetry collection, Against Heaven , and coeditor of The Echoing Ida Collection , a Black reproductive justice anthology.

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KEMI ALABI

NOVEMBER 10 2023

‘Writing Is a Way of Being, a Mode of Inquiry, a Compulsion, a Pleasure’

KEMI ALABI•NOVEMBER 10 2023

‘Writing Is a Way of Being, a Mode of Inquiry, a Compulsion, a Pleasure’

Poet and author of Against Heaven , Kemi Alabi, is experiencing a new disability and profound grief around the limits of care for sick Black people: ‘I’m wrestling with fear, anger; a complete reorientation to time, to my body, to the ableist world—and it’s demanding more honest language from me.

‘Writing Is a Way of Being, a Mode of Inquiry, a Compulsion, a Pleasure’

KEMI ALABI•NOVEMBER 10 2023

‘Writing Is a Way of Being, a Mode of Inquiry, a Compulsion, a Pleasure’

Poet and author of Against Heaven , Kemi Alabi, is experiencing a new disability and profound grief around the limits of care for sick Black people: ‘I’m wrestling with fear, anger; a complete reorientation to time, to my body, to the ableist world—and it’s demanding more honest language from me.

Kemi Alabi | The Republic