Graphite Format:Paperback Glamorous movie star Dara Thomas

Glamorous movie star Dara Thomas has it all-an Oscar nomination

is an aromantic asexual non-binary person with ADHD

and while the gay community has seen improved treatments for AIDS

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Graphite Format:Paperback Glamorous movie star Dara ThomasPatricia Frazier's Graphite is an ode to her grandmother and childhood home, the Ida B. Wells Projects, both which the poet lost to city and state sanctioned discrimination. The chapbook investigates loss and gentrification, particularly their effects on black young people from Chicago, whose political movement, resilience, and ability to make celebration after pain, drive these poems.