FOR SIZAKELE
About For Sizakele
Taylor, a queer Nigerian college student, is in a passionate relationship with Lee, a Black American basketball-playing pianist. When Taylor develops romantic feelings for Sy, a Cameroonian photographer whose similarities make them instant family, Taylor battles Lee’s jealousy. As Taylor encounters challenges to her femme and African identities, she finds ways, through the kinship of her friends, to define herself on her own terms. For Sizakele addresses transcontinental identity, intimate partner violence, queer gender and how we love as illuminators of who we are.
Praise for For Sizakele
“For Sizakele is a poetic and intimate journey through the dense thicket of the lives of lovers. Cultural displacement, deep wounds and youthful passion are the backdrop for this vivid series of encounters between women—butch and femme—who must learn to know and trust themselves for love to be possible. Etaghene has created a heartbreaking yet encouraging glimpse at the mountains women of color must climb to see the sunrise.”
—Jewelle Gomez, author, The Gilda Stories
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I DO METAPHORS
"sometimes you have to write the poem that rips your ribcage open exposes off-beat on-beat polyrhythmic heart murmurings that speaks in tongues" ~Yvonne Onakeme Etaghene
I DO METAPHORS is a passionate, brave, unflinching exploration of the most vulnerable and powerful parts of us. Etaghene’s poems illuminate what breaks us and what puts us back together, while investigating gender, love, grief, longing, colorism, belonging and more. I DO METAPHORS is a powerful, inspiring collection of poems that both haunts and heals.
Yvonne Onakeme Etaghene 