meant a long road of distancing and shelter-in-place. since the protests escalated this summer. “The corporation is incentivizing law enforcement,” Martineau says. “So it's mostly if it wasn't for law enforcement, they wouldn’t even be able to build Line 3 because the people's power behind the movement outweighs those who are supporting it. But it is law enforcement [that is] currently enforcing the eminent domain of this corporation, allowing this project to be built.”The Interceptreported that comedown after the euphoria of seeing the band they love live. But in this case, there was no real-life concert. Instead, the sadness came after the end of Bang Bang Con, a two-day event with old concert footage that spanned BTS’s seven-year career. (Game Over Books, 2020). Ariana's work investigates queer Black personhood in Mexican American spaces, Black relationality and girlhood, loneliness, and care. She holds a B.A. in African Diaspora Studies and Mexican American Studies from UT Austin, an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Pittsburgh, and is pursuing an M.L.S. in Library and Information Science from the University of North Texas. Ariana is a 2014 national collegiate poetry slam champion and owes much of her practice to Black performance communities led by Black women poets from the South. She has been writing, performing, and teaching poetry for over ten years and is currently represented by YNME Creatives. Follow Ariana onTwitterandInstagram@ArianaThePoet.Alan Pelaez Lopez