MELONCHOLIA

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1 h 0 min · 21 jun 2025
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Created by poet Kemi Alabi [/home] and featuring over a dozen trans and queer stories, MELONCHOLIA presents a speculative theory of fibroid growth, revealing what's been swallowed — and must be spit out.

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Fibroids — benign uterine tumors — are often compared to fruit in size. While some are as small as apple seeds, others grow as large as watermelons. Black people are three-to-four times more likely to grow them and tend to experience more severe symptoms. There's no medical explanation for their growth or this disparity. But as Aimé Césaire wrote, “Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.” Created by poet Kemi Alabi and featuring over a dozen Black trans and queer stories, MELONCHOLIA presents a speculative theory of fibroid growth, revealing what's been swallowed — and must be spit out. ____ Donate [https://gofund.me/c49348c4] to Black trans and queer people seeking fibroid-related healthcare. Request [https://forms.gle/qxTUn4ksiQUDSaCN6] MELONCHOLIA mutual aid funds for your fibroid-related healthcare. Tip [https://account.venmo.com/u/kemi-alabi]the creator and organizer; support more MELONCHOLIA content. ____ Interviewees in order of appearance: Kaleia Martin, Jenna Anast, Aya Nikole-Cook, Kamika Royal, elle roberts, Simone Austin, Vaness Cox, c.r. glasgow, Kaiji Evans, Je’Kendria Trahan, Ellis Vaughn, Charmaine Lang, Skyler Maley, m. mick powell, and Taylor Mason. This story includes excerpts from MNN NYC’s segment “J Marion Sims: #NotOurHero” [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwSUW0K0J_0&t=60s&pp=ygUhYmxhY2sgeW91dGggcHJvamVjdCBqIG1hcmlvbiBzaW1z] and June Jordan’s “Poem about My Rights.” [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNkjQWDoDTs] Produced by Kemi Alabi [/home] with support from Northwestern’s Women’s Center [https://www.northwestern.edu/womenscenter/] and Invisible Institute x Logan Center for the Arts’ Digital Storytelling Initiative. [https://www.logancenter.uchicago.edu/filmcinema/dsi]

24 jun 20251 h 0 min