Category: Writing About Race, Class, Gender, & Ability

Mississippi River & Me: The Memoir My Dad Wouldn’t Write

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(cover photo: Jennifer Colten) My dad’s upsouth childhood included the Mississippi river in a way that seems inconceivable now. From fishing it, to swimming it, to being baptized in it, to making love next to it, the river figured largely in the lives and imaginations of post war East St. Louis. ...

Calling Us “Out of Our Names”: Radical Black Feminism and the Evolution of Nomenclature

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Within radical black feminism, the project to accurately identify and name our communities, our identities, and our dominators has been one way to combat nomenclature used to “deny the story, obscure injustice, and disguise power” (Sell). Depending from what vantage point one is viewing, the ...

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

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  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!