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An Excerpt of SOLEMN…Enjoy!
See some of Kalisha’s inspirations for the novel on Pinterest. | Use the hashtags #Solemn & #SolemnBook to join other readers and the conversation on Twitter. | Submit a question about Solemn to Kalisha on Goodreads under “Ask the Author.”
Little Rock Nine, Four Little Girls, and One Confederate Flag: A Retrospective
One way to move this tragedy and the deceased in it past public ephemera and into history is to forever connect the loss of their lives to a national symbolic act against domestic terrorism: the legally-mandated abolition of our Confederate flag, and civil prosecution of anyone who waves it.
“We have to give our black girls “the Talk”- and it’s not about sex…”…my essay on the horrifying McKinney, Texas, injustice, on SheKnows.com…
Racial profiling does not discriminate by gender...it's time to tell our black girls the police may not be working for them.
“Spirit of Writing” is now a class at The Eckleburg Workshops.
To work with Kalisha on re-establishing your writing practice and resurrecting your creative spirit, register for the first session of Kalisha’s course “Spirit of Writing,” at The Eckleburg Workshops.
My story “There Were Six” appears in Per Contra: An International Journal of The Arts, Literature, and Ideas
The number of black women and girls who go missing without a manhunt or trace continues. I am grateful to share my fictionalization of the predicament of deprioritized black women and girls as the story "There Were Six" in Per Contra: An International Journal of The Arts, Literature and Ideas. I don't presume to do justice to the realistic situation in a story, but please find some helpful links and resources included in this post.
Birthing a Slave: Reproduction and Inhumanity during America’s Slavery Era
To understand how the joyous occasion of motherhood was a form of suffering for black female slave, please read this excellent post on "the book Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South, by Marie Jenkins Schwartz. The book tells the history of a somewhat esoteric subject: the need of slaveholders, and the … Continue reading Birthing a Slave: Reproduction and Inhumanity during America’s Slavery Era
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