Simone Person

Simone Person is a Black queer femme, two-time Pink Door Writing Retreat Fellow, and editor at Just Femme & Dandy. They are the author of Dislocate (Honeysuckle Press, 2018) and Smoke Girl (Diode Editions, 2019). Simone grew up in small Michigan towns and Toledo, Ohio. You can find them at simoneperson.com and on Twitter and Instagram at @princxporkchop.

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fatness

sexual assault

A curvy Black woman with long braids pulled back into a pony tail rests her chin on the edge of a white bathtub underneath her hands. She's wearing air pods. A brown, wood wall and a stack of white towels are visible to her left. The bathtub is filled with bubbles.

first person

When I Stopped Apologizing for My Fatness, I Started to Heal

I had to figure out what it meant to reconnect with a body I’d always been afraid of.

Simone Person —

May 17, 2022

reproductive health

image shows IUD on a background of Yellow, Pink and Blue.

health

Out with the Old: One Black Femme’s Struggle to Remove Their IUD

“While the gyno tried to wiggle out the device, she seemed to forget I was even in the room. It was just her and my uterus, locked in a battle…

Simone Person —

Sep 13, 2021