How To Talk About Race, Class, Gender, and Ability

Posted on March 23, 2018July 20, 2018 by treasureshieldsredmond

Have you ever had your ant-racist beliefs questioned, and were unsure how to explain why you feel the way you do? Here’s a way to organize your thinking so you never have to feel “stumped” again. JOIN MY NEXT CREATIVE WRITING CLASS!

The Feminine Pronoun Series: “Black” or “African American”? (No. 35)

Posted on February 23, 2017 by treasureshieldsredmond

As part of a creative diversity and inclusion workshop I facilitated at Lewis University, I asked people one question: “Which do you prefer? “Black” or “African American”? The responses were alternately surprising and soulful. They served as the centerpiece of the workshop, and they created a jum...

The National Women’s March: Sisters, What Are You Willing To Destroy?

Posted on January 27, 2017January 27, 2017 by treasureshieldsredmond

What follows are the remarks and the poem (“Oath: 1957”) I delivered on Saturday, January 21, 2017 at the St. Louis arm of the National Women’s March. When I was first asked to participate in the national women’s March, I declined because I thought it was just another example in the long line of...

The Feminine Pronoun Series No. 32: #WRITERSRESIST

Posted on January 19, 2017January 19, 2017 by treasureshieldsredmond

All over the country, writers assembled in vocal resistance to the rhetoric and planned policies of the incoming Trump administration. The movement was named #WRITERSRESIST. (You can find out more about #WRITERSRESIST here. In this video, my kids and I I travel to Millsaps College in Jackson, Mis...

The Feminine Pronoun Series No. 31: New Year. New You.

Posted on January 11, 2017January 11, 2017 by treasureshieldsredmond

In this video I get a super cute (if I do say so myself:) updated do at Salon Satreice and then I work on an upcoming performance with Rodney Smith, owner of the Palomino Lounge. 2017 is starting off looking AND sounding good! Here’s a bit more about my business: I offer two services: 1) […]...

The Feminine Pronoun Series: Poetry. Pedagogy. Justice. (No. 30)

Posted on December 31, 2016December 31, 2016 by treasureshieldsredmond

The tagline on my website for Feminine Pronoun Consultants, LLC is “Poetry. Pedagogy. Justice.” Those three powerful terms almost encompass my life/work philosophy. I say “almost” because Parenting is also a major part of my life’s work, as it were, and each of the terms inform each other and tak...

The Feminine Pronoun Series No. 29: Old School #HipHop

Posted on November 29, 2016November 29, 2016 by treasureshieldsredmond

I come to writing very honestly. Not only was my mother (rest in peace) a writer, but my father is a well-known poet and is currently poet laureate of his home town of East St. Louis, Illinois. The first time my writing truly became public was in the 1990s as a signed hip-hop artist to […]

The Feminine Pronoun Series N. 27: Teachers Will Save the World

Posted on September 21, 2016September 21, 2016 by treasureshieldsredmond

I work with perceptive school leaders who want their teachers to understand Diversity and Inclusion & seek the confidence and classroom results that knowledge produces. I was invited to talk with the dynamic faculty at the Times2 STEM Academy in Providence, Rhode Island. My presentation was follo...

Feminine Pronoun Series no. 26: #BLACKJOY

Posted on September 13, 2016September 13, 2016 by treasureshieldsredmond

In this episode I spend time at the Hawthorne School for Girls, Missouri’s only public all girls school. Then, I head to an advanced screening of BIRTH OF A NATION. I end at a wonderful event celebrating my dad’s forty years as poet laureate of East St. Louis, Illinois.

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