Ancestry, Belonging & Healing: Resistance through Poetry
About the Event
This three-part community studio invites writers to explore the power of ancestry, memory, and identity as tools for resistance and healing. Across the series, participants will engage in poetry, discussion, and reflective writing to reconnect with their lineages, honor community histories, and reclaim stories that have been silenced or forgotten. Through creative exploration, writers will examine how remembering and writing about the past can foster belonging, cultivate resilience, and transform personal and collective healing into acts of resilience.
In this session, participants will explore cultural storytelling as a way to understand self, memory, and belonging, and how writing can help process emotions connected to heritage and personal identity. Through reflective discussion and guided poetry writing, participants will examine how stories, both inherited and self-created, shape who we are and how we heal.
Kayla Dudley
Speaker
Lorraine Olaya
Speaker
Speakers
Kayla Dudley (she/her) is a poet, educator, and artivist dedicated to using storytelling as a tool for social change. A…
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Lorraine Olaya (she/her) is a Colombian American writer, editor, and poet born and raised in Queens, New York. In 2023,…
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