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Writing into the Truth about Black Mental Health
DW McKinney on finding the courage to write her memoir about her OCD, and finding inspiration in Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
 • Literary Liberation, Memoir Land, and DW McKinney
When Books Become a Container of Possibility for Black Girls
Emma Akpan on how books became both refuge and revelation for a Black girl seeking her place in the world.
 • Literary Liberation, Memoir Land, and Emma Akpan
"I have to believe the work is inherently useful because it frees me."
Educator and writer Saskia Kercy on constant revision, reimagining new realities, and how everything counts.
 • Saskia and Literary Liberation
"Connection is integral to liberatory work"
Poet and artist Zoë Luh on the power of dreaming, the importance of connection, and how living with a disability is a constant reminder to resist.
 • Zoë Luh
"Writing requires an emotional nudity that prompts a similar ethic in liberation work."
Poet and editor Ashna Ali on radical honesty, attention, and creativity as a divine right.
 • PAIN BABY, Literary Liberation, and WE THE SOIL
"Poetry is an armor of possibility"
Poet & educator Noah Arhm Choi on community power, mapping our freedom, and the fullness of our humanity.
 • Noah Arhm Choi, Literary Liberation, and WE THE SOIL
"Writing replaces the terror with possibility."
Poet & journalist Dasia Moore on the Black South, intergenerational memory, and love as a sustaining practice.
 • Dasia Sharae Moore, Literary Liberation, and WE THE SOIL
They Tried To Take My Words. I Fought to Get Them Back.
"My writing, once a liberatory microphone, was now a stick of dynamite, waiting to blow up my case at the touch of a flame."
 • Iris (Yi Youn) Kim, Literary Liberation, and Memoir Land
"nothing is meaningless"
Poet Hiwot Adilow on how Ethiopia's 1974 Revolution shaped her family's migration, her writing as resistance, and creating amid capitalism's…
 • Literary Liberation and WE THE SOIL
Introducing Freedom Ways ✊🏾✊🏽✊🏿
Our newest column coming soon, weaving the stories that connect us as writers, as activists, as seekers of social justice. Plus, an invitation!
 • Sherisa de Groot
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