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desree

Writer & performer, FACILITATOR & producer

Desree is an award-winning spoken word artist, producer, and facilitator. Artist in Residence for poetry collective EMPOWORD, Desreeā€™s work explores intersectionality, justice, and social commentary.

my aim is to reshape and challenge conventional norms in pursuit of a more just and inclusive spaces

A GIRL WALKS

INTO A BAR

I FIND MY STRENGTH IN SIMPLE THINGS

I FIND MY STRENGTH IN SIMPLE THINGS

Writer & performer, FACILITATOR & producer

Writer & performer, FACILITATOR & producer

altar 

Altar explores multifaceted dimensions of sacrifice, challenging its heroism and examining its ties to servility. The poems in Altar urge their protagonists to play neither lion nor lamb, but to live and flourish on their own terms. Each page glimmers with vivid, often devastating vignettes: we witness the resilience of youth, the strength of the Black female body, the complexity of chosen and unchosen family, the sweeping effects of gentrification.