drift

tiohtiàke

the crowd was gone.   the chants had faded.   but the sign was still in my hands.

i sat down for a moment   while i waited for the métro.

travailleur de la santé contre le racisme systémique not a slogan. just a fact i live with and sometimes fight through.

justice pour joyce   because grief doesn't end   when the protest does.

#tiohtiàke #drift #refusals #blackness #fragments #holdings

summer 2020.   a balcony,   a clothesline,   and the masks we wore like breath.

orange. black. floral.   each one a gesture,   a compromise,   a signal.

there was nothing romantic about it—   but still,   they dried in the sun   like any other laundry.

a new kind of intimacy:   fabric, filtered air,   what we held between us   and what we didn’t.

#tiohtiàke #drift #fragments #holdings #surfaces

drift traces movement through cities, memory, and the everyday negotiations of black queer life.

it’s a record of what shimmers at the edges—grief and care, disappearance and return, what cannot be archived but still insists on being felt.

born in #tiohtiàke and #kjipuktuk, carried through #glasgow, #lisboa and elsewhere, this work moves with me wherever i go. it follows drift not as research, but as a way of living: to wander, to listen, to stay with what resists closure.

what appears here are fragments, field notes, and moments of stillness. each post is a trace of encounter—something noticed, carried, or left behind.

you are welcome to move through this space. pause when you need to. read with care. nothing here is for extraction.

there are no updates, no announcements, no arguments. only rhythm.

only movement.