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Fanon and Red Balloons
So this blog is a long awaited project for me. Or should I say, long procrastinated. I honestly don’t know why blogs are so important– although I do read them– I feel like they are a little like...
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From Havana to Obama, Four Years Without Drinking the Kool-Aid
On election night 2008, I am in the fancy Hotel Rivera on the Malecon in Havana Cuba. There we are, a group of us from Brown and a group from Harvard, watching our election on CNN in English from a bar...
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Amilcar, MLK, and my daughter’s first drawing
I was born on January 20th, 1986, the first ever observed Martin Luther King Day. It was also the 13th anniversary of Amilcar Cabral’s assassination. The fact that this year’s birthday, my 27th, fell...
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Writing Birth
Today I am working on my first publication, an essay in a forthcoming anthology on Black Women’s birth experiences. I am sipping Green tea, listening to Bob Marley moan Redemption Song in my ear,...
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At the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop
Today marks the second day of the 2013 Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, held this year in the Africana Studies department at Brown University. I was admitted into the workshop as a fiction writer...
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