IVY PORTERICO

Self-Definition

August 10, 2023

I am Ivy

I am a Pan-Africanist

I grew up with the one drop rule so

I tend to be inclusive

Whether visible or not

If you identify as African

Descendant

I  embrace you as my 

Comrade

I am a Dunham dancer

Proud and grateful to

Make that claim

Decades ago I did not

Dare to say it out loud

I am a writer

More than

Just a poet

I write essays

I write stories

I am a novelist

I am a woman

Not a cis

Not a trans

Not a queer

I am a producer

Reluctantly

I am an actress

Enthusiastically

I am an editor

Nitpickingly

I am Ivy