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Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications

A dictionary definition of "community."

“Capacitating Community: The Writing Innovation Symposium”

Fishman, Jenn, et al. “Capacitating Community: The Writing Innovation Symposium.” Community Literacy Journal, vol. 17, no. 2, Apr. 2023, pp. 49–67.

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​“Writing As a Black Scholar: Teaching Black Activism, Hip-Hop, and the Cost of Activism.” 

Writing As a Black Scholar: Teaching Black Activism, Hip-Hop, and the Cost of Activism.”Bedford Bits Blog, Macmillan Learning Community. October 2023.

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Works under progress/review

“Embodied Digital Rhetoric and Racialized Labor: A Black Woman Graduate Student’s Activism amid White Performativity.”

2026

In Black Women’s Digital Rhetoric: Healing, Resistance, and the Rhetoric of #JUSTus. Ed. Jessica Ridgeway

Related Work

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Poetry

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Research

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Digital Projects

I bring the revolutionary lineages of Black literature into the class

Pedagogy