Folasade Adesanya
moving slowly, wading patiently 🦦
Folasade Adesanya is a queer agender writer and independent scholar.
Their work is deeply aligned with their spiritual practice, with projects that source from queer Afro-diasporic archives, oral histories, and inherited knowledge. Their current projects include experimental prose poetry and microessays; speculative non/fiction that centers QTGNC care communities in historic Black neighborhoods; and unraveling the stories behind her lineage via interviews with extended family.
Folasade is a co-creator & manager at Studio AGD. She is also the founder of The Black Syllabus, an organization promoting literacy and holistic education informed by Afro-ancestral knowledge. Folasade was born and raised in the Bay Area, currently freezing in Minneapolis.
PUBLICATIONS:
2023, Jan 25. From Soil to Stars: A Conversation with Erin Sharkey. Minnesota Women’s Press.
2019 – ongoing. Book reviews, syllabi, and other educational/literary material. The Black Syllabus.
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where does the energy escape to when depression settles in, unpacks their bags & puts their feet up, occupying, arrogantly, the space you’d been keeping for excitement & hope & dancing and chances; how did you forget to get the keys back the last time you dismissed her? i digress. where does the energy go…
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home
I’m looking for something – or maybe I should say, I’m hoping for something I haven’t experienced yet. theres a lot of agony dripping from that word: yet. it implies an unmet desire a prolonged longing a search for fulfillment, it teases out desperation & tempts fate… how do I know that I can trust…
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black holes
I wanted to be an astronaut so badly when I was a kid; I remember being in elementary school learning about astronomy and other galaxies and audacious attempts to grasp the elusive… thoughts of other life began to percolate and the idea that I could detach from this earth that was never really that nice…
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Folasade Adesanya 