"Purple Pamphlet, Lavender Scare, 10450" by Jeffrey Lamar Coleman

MARCH 2022

Purple Pamphlet, Lavender Scare, 10450

DeSantis strokes his pen
Queer
as
it
sounds,
"Queer"
disappears:
Gay
Trans
Queer
Strokes his pen. DeSantis.

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3/10/2022

Jeffrey Lamar Coleman is a professor of English at St. Mary's College of Maryland, editor of Words of Protest, Words of Freedom: Poetry of the American Civil Rights Movement and Era, author of Spirits Distilled: Poems, and associate editor of the Journal of Hip Hop Studies. His most recent creative and scholarly work can be found in Where We Stand: Poems of Black Resilience and The Black Intellectual Tradition: African American Thought in the Twentieth Century, respectively.