generally I try hard

Not to lose my temper

Even when people piss me off and do mean or shady things I’ll barely respond

But I once taught a class full of guys

All cis hetero that challenged every word I said

Smirked when I tried to give feedback and instructions

They banded together in their disrespect

Then they were all absent going to the protests to stop the genocide in Gaza

One wrote, I encourage you to bring our colleagues during this historic moment

Pamela Sneed

Pamela Sneed is a poet, writer, visual artist, and spoken word & musical performer (Big Mama Thornton). She is the author of Funeral Diva (2020), Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than Slavery (1998) and many more. She is a painter, a political artist, and an assemblage and collage artist.
Teaching: She teaches online for the low-residency MFA program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is a visiting artist in the summer MFA program. She is an adjunct assistant professor at the Columbia University School of the Arts.

https://publictheater.org/productions/joes-pub/2024/p/pamela-sneed/

https://www.mrqd.org/events-2024/sneed