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Dungy has received fellowships from organizations including the National Endowment for the Arts, The Virginia Commission for the Arts, Cave Canem, Bread Loaf, the Dana Award, and the American Antiquarian Society. Dungy is the author of Suck on the Marrow (Red Hen Press, 2010), winner of the American Book Award and a Silver Medalist for the California Book Award and What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison (Red Hen Press, 2006), a finalist for the PEN Center USA 2007 Literary Award and the Library of Virginia 2007 Literary Award. Together, they spark new conversations, showing the ways we forge identity through larger cultural considerations-in our bodies, our neighborhoods, and the natural world.Ĭamille T.

Originally published in the pages of Ecotone, the award-winning literary magazine that reimagines place, these essays recount how women uniquely shape and are shaped by their environments. And Shuchi Saraswat's trip to the Bay Area to document a ceremony honoring Ganesha leads her on her own journey home.

Laurie Clements Lambeth paints the strength and fragility of the human body through the lens of a progressive neurological disease. Toni Jensen traces the erasure of Native culture on college campuses and challenges notions of safety in light of sexual and gun violence. Observing the policing of Detroit, Aisha Sabatini Sloan bears witness to environmental racism, and finds community with family and neighbors. Dungy, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and Terry Tempest Williams, reclaim spaces that have always been theirs. Emerging writers along with celebrated voices in the field, including Belle Boggs, Camille T. Traveling across time and place-from a Minnesota summer camp to the peacock-lined streets of Kerala, India-these essays reveal their authors as artful and singular observers of their homes, lives, and histories. "It's acknowledging and honoring difference as enriching." In Trespass, twenty women essayists challenge the traditional boundaries of place-based writing to make room for greater complexity: explorations of body, sexuality, gender, and race. Passionate about art, indigenous knowledge, literature, gender equality, youth and childhood development, mental health, sustainability, and intellectual disability sports."Perhaps a future of environmental writing begins in trying to meet all people where they are, wherever they are," writes Lauret E. Bernice sees herself as living in the abstract wildlife of her existence and resists anything that dehumanizes her melanin identity.
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Some of her projects include the digital series "YOU CAN'T HAVE YOUR ART BACK", "IMPHEPHO" and “DECOR YOURSELF” ”which are inspired by African masks, ancestral blood, and black/melanin royalty. Mannie is currently completing her Diploma in ICT and App Development at the University of Mpumalanga. Her most celebrated project is 'Talk Like A Painting, a poetry book written and self-published in April 2019 but is currently working on more collections.
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With not much spotlight as an emerging artist,t Zoleka the young poet has had her poetry published with Outcast Magazine, Button Poetry, Plants & Poetry Journal, Active Muse Journal, and articles published with Heart of Alpha Magazine and a featured article on the Street Culture Code site. She is part of the Design Indaba Emerging Creative Class of 2020 program. She describes herself as a hyper-romantic Xhosa Social ape that is passionate about the mysteries of creation and its intelligence, anthropology, intimacies, discoveries and dominance of the human condition. Zoleka Mannie is a 27-year-old multidisciplinary artist, poet, and aspiring Creative Director from Johannesburg but currently residing in Nelspruit, South Africa.
