Insurgent Poets Society

Organization Statement:

Insurgents Poets Society, founded by Jive Poetic, exists to build and maintain diverse poetic platforms that neither alienate nor exclude People Of Color. The actions, programs, and workshops we facilitate are intended to infiltrate and disrupt artistic segregation that has been standardized by the literary and performance worlds. We do not wish to have our voices fill racial quotas or alleviate white guilt; because of this, we challenge gestures of inclusion that reduce our voices to seasonal ornaments only to be displayed during specific heritage month celebrations. Our work is to position marginalized and oppressed voices as tools to engage culturally, emotionally, socially, and politically without feeling exploited in the process. We write and perform acts of resistance while collecting and redistributing resources for survival.