"I am eager to burn this threadbare masculinity." Essex Hemphill wrote it mid-plague, while a government refused to name the dead — and died at 38 in 1995. Marsha P. Johnson gave away what little she had and was found in the Hudson in 1992. Pat Parker built a women's health clinic while publishing five collections. The poem and the picket line were never separate. We say their names like we're calling roll.
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