This is not the end of an era, this is the beginning of social consciousness in America. This is when we become advocates, activists, and badass revolutionaries. We must organize and we must use the Civil Rights Movement as the model to follow. We are now in the resistance.”
Immigrants and refugees alike bring our past, our baggage, and our heritage, the unseen marks that determine the fabric that’ll help us survive the journey or not. Hope is the fuel that moves us all into a better life.
Determined to recover my writing routine, I enrolled in Ariel Gore’s Literary Kitchen Essay intensive in early September. For the next two weeks, I arrived home from work, had dinner and set to write following Ariel’s prompts. This exercise resulted in drafts, for 4- 1000 words essays, and a long, 4200 words piece.