Bre’Anna Bivens — also known by her pen name, Sadé Vu Afra — is an emerging writer from Houston, Texas, and an MFA student at Stetson University. Sadé hopes her writing and artistry familiarizes the strange, estranges the quotidian of [black] life, and privileges other senses that deter desires for visuals of [black] pain — and further facilitates more imagining for joy.