It Ain’t Truth If It Doesn’t Hurt is spoken word artist Brandon Lacy Campos’ first collection of poetic works that stretch, snap, engage, top, bottom, flip, and serve the intersections of race, class, sexual orientation, gender, lust, love, sex, HIV, and politics.

From his personal life narrative to his political outrage to his out of control romantic heart, It Ain’t Truth If It Doesn’t Hurt walks the line of pain and pleasure and brings to light some of the truths that slice us open, turn us inside out and sometimes sew us back together.