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- Title
A Black Girl Song for Dajerria.
- Authors
Ford, Tanisha C.
- Abstract
Racing. Racing. My heart pounded through my chest. I felt woozy as if I was inhaling thin air. I could hear my heart booming through my ears in rhythmic patterns. Thump, thump. Thump. Thump. My stomach flooded with acid. Like a chopped and screwed track, my surroundings moved in slow motion. I was trapped between two temporal and spatial worlds. My mind struggled to make sense of it all. I could see fragmented scenes from a YouTube video rendered through my body's sensory recall mechanism. Was this real? Was I reliving a memory that belonged to me? To someone else? Corporeal déjà vu, one might call it. This splitting of selves, of memory, of space generated palpable emotional energy. But as swiftly as it had settled upon me, it was gone. Stillness. Yet, an emotional residue remained; it sat with me like a musty smell in a confined space. I was remembering Dajerria.
- Subjects
BLACK people; CIRCADIAN rhythms; HEART physiology; YOUTUBE (Web resource); EMOTIONS
- Publication
QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, 2017, Vol 4, Issue 3, p156
- ISSN
2327-1574
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.14321/qed.4.3.0156