This work shows that the benefits of reading multiple texts, each from a different perspective provides opportunities for students.
“Manslation” explores several episodes from the author’s childhood and early adulthood that show the development of his sexual literacy.
An empowered inner authenticity that supersedes the pressures faced by twenty-first century generations - striving for an unattainable false perfect ‘self’.
“Cold Snap” is about two disparate adults, caught in the tumult of abrupt weather change, caused by the accidental detonation of an experimental meteorological weapon.
This piece is a creative reflection which emerged out of the auto-ethnographic reflections from my PhD around research extraction.
This work, a narrative and poetic account of a school shooting, provides an experiential entry into the experience from the point of view of a faculty member.
"For me, being a feminist simply means I am a strong, independent woman who has ideas and thoughts of her own; but it also means something else, which is an idea that confuses even me. I mean, how could I be a feminist when I am also a conservative woman?"
This is a piece I wrote in desperation after being confronted with the failures of the foster system in the United States today.
“blackwomanatwork” came out of my experiences working in academia as a first-generation immigrant black woman from the Caribbean.
"Although I never planned it, I wrote a series of novels, Celestial Bodies, that have pierced my heart in a way nothing else ever has, changing me as a writer and as a person."
The poems in this collection are a reflection on my zero waste aspirations (and the values behind the movement at large).
I channel Kincaid’s ironic and critical tone, while atoning for my failures to recognize dominant racist and classist discourses.
