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In this essay, I discuss my personal journey with the Strong Black Woman schema and how basing my self-worth on
In this personal statement, I reflect on how suffering alters the way we see the people around us, and how that phenomenon ended up playing a big part in my life.
I wrote this while thinking about my experience with Girls Write Now and where my love of writing started.
A lot of my writing is related to loss—in this case, it’s old friends. Though I’ve yet to attend a loved one’s funeral, I find myself grieving people who are still alive.
Being the older sister of a younger brother with autism has been both challenging and gratifying. Throughout the years, I’ve learned many lessons from my brother on empathy, identity, and understanding.
Self-Defining a Strong Black Woman
Happy Days Are Here Again
Beginning of a Lifetime
To write about things that have ended a long time ago
different, not wrong.
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