Where consciousness meets matter.
Our Mission
We center Black Queer Feminist Theory in our vision of liberation. While this framework may sound academic in nature, we recognize that shared knowledge is not limited to classrooms, and includes discourse through our music, museums, graffiti, social media platforms, memes, documentaries, and more. Nevertheless, our work is informed by the lived conditions reproduced in gendered labor, sexuality, care, and psychic survival. We value accessibility through pleasure, and create sound-based work that is felt and heard across bodies, through high frequencies, rhythm, pulse, timing, texture, repetition, and silence.
Echoes, vibrations, and instinct.
Moody Lion Poetry is a literary and artistic project founded by Imani Jeni. From the vision of an organizer, survivor, and writer, creation is motivated by the desire to heal not only individual trauma, but generational pain that is masked by survival, rooted in ancestral bones, and buried in future resistance. Whether it’s a poem, haiku, prose, rap, instrumental, or song, this entity exists as a breathing museum, living alongside our masterpieces.
Biography, lineage, and land acknowledgment
The author of this project is named Imani, African American woman born in the borough of The Bronx, NYC in July 1996. She spent the first half of her childhood in Pennsylvania after her family moved from the inner city to the suburban school system in 2000, then adolescence in New Jersey when her parents separated. Imani was accepted into Pace University located in lower Manhattan, then transferred to New Brunswick’s Rutgers University campus during her second semester. After graduating, she moved to Philadelphia for work, then relocated to Durham, North Carolina until landing in her current location, Duwamish territory in Seattle, Washington. Her maternal grandmother was born in December 1942 in Charleston, South Carolina, the youngest of eight, and lived there until her family moved to Harlem when she was 8 years old. Both of Imani’s parents were born in the Bronx during the late 1970’s.
No justice, no peace. We do this til we’re free.
♡ support for Minnesota and local journalism: https://www.standwithminnesota.com/stay-informed
♡ support protestors in Iran: https://united4iran.org
♡ https://www.rainbowbookbus.org
♡ how to tell what’s real online: https://youtu.be/WVeYLlKOWc0
recommended reading:
♡ tenderness: a black queer meditation on softness and rage by Annika Hansteen-Izora
♡ https://cpt.org/wp-content/uploads/Undoing20Oppressions20-20Three20Pillars20-20Smith-11.pdf
♡ The Combahee River Collective
♡ what’s on our reading list for this season:
MARSHA by Tourmaline
the nutmeg’s curse by Amitav Ghosh
the feminist case against bureaucracy by Kathy E. Ferguson
trauma stewardship by Laura van Dernoot lip sky with Connie Burk
half his age by Jennette McCurdy
local and transnational community:
1821 is a collection of poetry submissions that tells the raw experience of violence from the first perspective. This version is audio-only that will require an online account for your eternal access of this paid material.
This is a dedication to the everlasting memory of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti, who were publicly executed in the state of Minnesota in January 2026. The sacred elements were selected with consideration of weather, seasons, and how they interact alone, together, and when evolving in new forms (such as water into ice.) Fire (Summer 2025: L.A. was the first city to have national guard infiltrate) holds our passion, desire, and creative potential. Water (Floods in Seattle, no FEMA support) carries our dreams, inner knowing, and grows our land. Air (smoke rises, planes, surveillance) is our breath and provides a sense of safety when it is clean, accessible, and cooling us down. Enjoy this mixtape, curated by yours truly (Imani J) and shout out to all those artists who held it down when the world was literally burning around us. Ase.