My Body Swollen
By: Gertrude J. Fraser My feet are swollen Toes pressed tightly together A peculiar sensation of skin jammed against skin My fingers burn...
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uvabfserg
- Dec 22, 2020
- 6 min
2020 Is Choking All of “Us”
By: Jaronda Miller-Bryant July 1, 2020 Since the end of May 2020, I have been trying to grapple with how major catastrophic and...
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uvabfserg
- Dec 21, 2020
- 1 min
DREAM NEW DREAMS
By: Lisa Harris If we can Just but Whisper words to the universe One word would be Gratitude We first thank our ancestors For paving...
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uvabfserg
- Dec 21, 2020
- 10 min
“Still a Nigger”
By: Stanley C. Trent I It’s mid-August, 1978. Matoaca Elementary School. Chesterfield County, Virginia. My first day as a teacher. I see...
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uvabfserg
- Dec 21, 2020
- 5 min
What Didn’t Make the News
By: Valerie N. Adams-Bass, PhD The three, armed neo-Nazis who surrounded the synagogue last week during mid-week service forcing...
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uvabfserg
- Dec 21, 2020
- 1 min
WHERE ARE YOU FROM?
By: Violet Snipes-Azzi Where are you from? I am from a place where women are treated unfairly Where are you from? I am from a place where...
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uvabfserg
- Dec 21, 2020
- 3 min
~A LETTER TO STUDENTS AT UVA ~
(Revised from a letter sent to Department of English graduate students) July 21, 2020 Dear Students, My thoughts of you have been too...
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