Blue Velvet Chair Wizards & Witches and our democracy itself

and our democracy itself

They follow the campaigns and coalitions of Critical Resistance in Oakland and San Francisco and Survived and Punished in New York City

They include near-sonnets

Jazz Jennings

about her experience growing up as a young Black girl at the intersections of race

Blue Velvet Chair Wizards & Witches and our democracy itselfA young girl looks out on the world from her favorite chair in this "quiet meditation on the sweet delight of simply observing the changing world" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) by award winning poet and New York Times bestselling author Rio Cortez. In the morning, a young child opens her eyes, and, after one biiiiig streeeeetch, heads straight for her favorite place in the house: the blue velvet chair. Perched from the chair set by the living room