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

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!  

Poetry in Spaces of Recovery

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  I love the photo above because you can’t tell which hand is mine. Just like if I was standing together with these women in the Magdalene house, a safe place for women recovering from addiction and a life in the sex trade, (whether being trafficked or deploying their labor in instances of surv...