"a is for the phantom breath

before the “a” in “he’s a fag”

b is for the blade

c is for the cut"

© Kopano Maroga and uHlanga Press

Kopano Maroga is a performance artist, writer and cultural worker. They are currently living in Brussels, Belgium and working as a curator and dramaturge at Kunstencentrum Vooruit in Ghent, Belgium. Their debut anthology of poetry Jesus Thesis and Other Critical Fabulations was released in December 2020 through uHlanga Press. They very much believe in the power of love as a weapon of mass construction.