May 2024 We hot-wire our bodies, & tell the genocide it hasn't won. By god, it is wont to do, but by god, it won't! We twist ourselves into crazyeyed shapes of refusal. In these times, dance is a decision to move beyond survival. Dance arms the body to suffer the art of witness. Once, […]
Sa Whitley
Sa Whitley is an Assistant Professor and Poet of Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University in the School of Social Transformation. They are a Cave Canem Fellow and the winner of the 2024 Indiana Review Poetry Prize. A black queer non-binary person, they enjoy dance parties, desert hikes, and sci-fi TV shows that imagine and portray the toppling of oppressive empires, prisons, and authoritarian regimes through collective struggle.