HeyJaredThe Gathering
Making Black Womens Studies accessible to folks outside of higher institutions through essays and workshops.
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(Formally) Introducing The Gathering’s Literary Conjure Studio 🕯️📖🌀 (opens the original)
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Following our most recent cohort of Essential Teachings of Audre Lorde (which so graciously wrote about here 🥹), I couldn’t ignore the fact that I need to gather with y’all on a weekly basis. Truly for my own mental and spiritual well-being. The thought of no longer spending two hours a week studying, discussing, and writing about Black women’s literature saddened me to my core–and I wish I was being dramatic. My personal Literary Conjure practice demands so
What Does it Take to Survive? Notes from Audre Lorde (opens the original)
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“What does it really mean to survive?”Is a question that Audre Lorde pondered quite a bit throughout her life and therefore through her writing. The definition of survival is one she fought to reclaim and rename for herself. She lived through the polarizing political events of the late 20th century – born into the throes of World War II, witnessed the Manhattan Project, the Persian Gulf War, the end of apartheid in South Africa, the assasination of MLK Jr., the McCarthy era and the Reagan admini
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