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  • “We Were Never Meant to Survive”: How the Ghost of Slavery Haunts Audre Lorde and the Black Community in the United States

    October 28, 2025

    6 November, 2023 “We Were Never Meant to Survive”: How the Ghost of Slavery Haunts Audre Lorde and the Black Community in the United States After the successes of the 1960s civil rights movement, Black people in the United States were forced to navigate the new post-segregation world in which there was an institutionalized semblance… →

  • A Certain Slant of Emily: Paradoxical Oppression in Dickinson’s Poem 320

    October 28, 2025

    Emily Semaya Emily Dickinson’s 320th published poem, colloquially titled “There’s a certain Slant of light,” in reference to the first line, explores feelings of deep heaviness and despair through the use of comparisons and metaphors. The poem is arranged in quatrains, with each stanza following an ABCB rhyme scheme, save for the final one which… →

  • Elegy to the Word Lesbian

    October 28, 2025

    Nov. 5, 2024– A Response to Sharon Olds and The Election by Emily Semaya Dear word, I’m sorry so many  of the very people you represent hate you. I’m sorry  they replace you with words that taste cleaner in the mouths of the very ones we are supposedly so separated from– words more palpable to… →

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