you, the person watching and witnessing, does not help the person who has the foot on their on their neck, get the foot off their neck, you have no right to talk about how they ought to resist the foot on their neck.'" In 2020, Monet hosted a poetry reading through Haymarket Books, dedicated to her Palestinian comrades on Nakba Day, the day that marked the displacement of Palestinians and the declaration of the state of Israel. The reading featured Shadia Mansour, Remi Kanazi, Tahani Salah, Amir Sulaiman, Tef Poe, Frank Waln, Dareen Tatour, Hala Alyan, Tariq Luthun, Ahmad Abuznaid, and Mohammed El Kurd. In 2021, she spoke on theGrio about Black-Palestinian Solidarity with organizer and academic, Marc Lamont Hill and human rights attorney, Noura Erakat. She wrote the forward for Mohammed El-Kurd’s debut collection of poetry, Rifqa, written in the tradition of Ghassan Kanfani’s Palestinian Resistance Literature. Bibliography Books Amoako Boafo, 2022 My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter, Haymarket Books, 2017 The Black Unicorn Sings, Penmanship Books, 2010 Chorus: A Literary Mixtape, MTV Books, 2012 Poems “For The Kids Who Live”, Just Jazz Live Concert Series, 2021 "Black Joy", Community Church of Sebastopol, 2020 "Say Her Name", Summit, 2018 "Give My Regards to Brooklyn", Summit, 2018 "Dark Matter", The Laura Flanders Show, 2017 "My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter", Women's March, 2017 "You Make Holy War", Madame Noir, 2016 "Weathering", College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational, 2015 "The First Time", College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational, 2015 "What I've Learned", The Nuyorican Poets Cafe, 2012 References External links PBS NewsHour https://www.shondaland.com/inspire/books/a20268443/my-mother-was-a-freedom-fighter-aja-monet-interview/ 1987 births 20th-century African-American people 20th-century African-American women 21st-century American poets 21st-century American women writers African-American women writers American women poets Living people Poets from New York (state) Writers from Brooklyn