After Alok Vaid-Menon & Janani Balasubramanian
I. INVISIBLE ARCHITECTURE
Two names too long for playbills—
so they became the thing
that holds galaxies together
while no one's looking.
96% of everything
is what we can't see
but feel in our bones
when the universe bends.
II. SNOW QUEENS & FAIR TRADE
"I have this insatiable addiction
to white people"
Watch them weaponize confession,
turn fetish into scalpel,
cut straight to the colonial nerve
that makes empire blush.
III. FAMINE/FEMININE
Fear feeds on our flesh—
the more visible we become
the hungrier it grows.
Feminine/famine,
starve/carve,
survive/deprive.
They fed us nothing
so we learned to feast
on our own rebellion.
IV. REFRACTED LIGHT
"Rainbows are just
refracted white light"
Every pride parade
a prism
splitting empire's beam
into pretty colours
while the source
stays snow-blind
pristine.
V. ELOQUENT RANT/ELEGANT CANT
Two voices in collision
cant/can't
rant/grant
rage/stage
matter/scatter
They scatter the binary
like light through water—
suddenly everything
breaks beautiful
breaks open
breaks through.
VI. WHAT HOLDS
Dark matter doesn't apologize
for taking up space.
It just is
the reason
stars don't fall apart.
Two brown bodies
in borrowed tongues
speaking the universe
back
into existence.
For the cosmic forces who taught us: visibility is violence until it becomes power.