on Many people argue that injustice is seen throughout various social categories, others highlight that it is a recurring thing that anyone can fall victim to. The reality is that it is complicated. No matter how many times opposing powers want to put a blanket over it or normalize it the truth will always prevail. In… Continue Reading Splintered Scales: The Struggle for Justice
on Desire is an significant theme in Billy-Ray Belcourt’s poem “If Our Bodies Could Rust, We Would Be Falling Apart,” which addresses the yearning for closeness, connection, and understanding. In the poem, desire emerges as a motivating factor in search of meaning and connection as it explores the vulnerability of the body and the ego. … Continue Reading Desire – Poetry Seminar Response
on Still I Rise- by Maya Angelou Prompt: How do you think society should deal with recurring problems such as the ones described in the poem? (ex. gender inequality) Throughout time and across the entire world the human race has struggled with the undeniable presence of injustice, bigotry and discrimination in every ugly… Continue Reading Systemic Racism- Poetry Seminar Responses
on RESPONSE TO RIOT (AN ASPECT OF LOVE, ALIVE IN THE ICE AND FIRE) by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Commonalities of men and Women, lies not in visible tangibility But in the broken shards of Light Was it a lamp before, I do not know. … In what could have been seconds, Or years… (Really, who knows anymore?) –… Continue Reading Bludgeoned by Blue Blood
on Response to “Apologies for Living On” By Meena Kandasamy Freedom, freedom, freedom, unfortunately a privilege so many dream of. Not something that should be fought to gain, instead something that should be socially ingrained. Oppression is corruption and should cease to exist, Gender should not dictate your entitlements in life, society must begin to uplift.… Continue Reading The Desire For Freedom
on The following is a literary response to Riot: a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks Phoenix: In Egyptian mythology a bird which lived for five hundred years and then consumed itself in fire rising anew from ashes Gwendolyn Brooks The phoenix is a symbol of new beginnings. In mythology, it’s a bird of golden red feathers adored… Continue Reading It’s Time: To Rise