NOTES FROM THE UNDROWNED

I am Saint Trey—a Black queer poet, essayist, and organizer from Brooklyn, New York. My voice carries the salt of survival, the smoke of protest, and the sacred ache of becoming. I write from the ruins and the rivers, from pews and dancefloors, from the edge of the altar and the underside of America.

Notes from the Undrowned is not simply a newsletter. It is a vessel, it is a prayer, and a political reckoning. It is a place to tell the truth when the world demands our silence.

This space exists to bear witness and stir reflection—to hold space for Black queer memory, reimagined faith, and the sacred complexity of queerness. It offers social and political commentary through the lens of the most marginalized: the poor, the queer, the disabled, the abused, Black and brown communities, women, and children across the globe. Rooted in an abolitionist politic that is still becoming—as I unlearn and learn—it seeks to challenge power, disrupt silence, and imagine liberation beyond the limits imposed on us.

You’ll find here:

• Letters & Essays — meditations on faith, intimacy, empire, and the body

• Devotionals & Liturgies — reimagined scripture, ritual, and resistance

• The Study Room — Black radical syllabi, ancestral archives, abolitionist insight

• Spotlight Features — interviews with artists, organizers, and memory-keepers

• The Monthly Almanac — music, updates, spiritual and political reflections
  

I write for:

• The Black queer artist who refuses to disappear

• The survivor of faith trauma who still believes in something

• The organizer too exhausted to pray but still marching

• The one rebuilding from ash, waiting on language

• And the ones who don’t yet have the words, but are listening.
  

I write with the ancestors Baldwin, hooks, Lourde, Morrison in my spirit. I name God They/Them not to erase, but to expand. I believe resurrection isn’t clean and revolution isn’t optional. I write to remember the ones they drowned, and to become the ones who will not sink.

Welcome to the altar. Welcome to Notes from the Undrowned.

Saint Trey W.

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