The Afro-Indigenous mother, referred to as RR because she still has under-aged children, lost custody of her four children for nearly three years starting in 2016.
AMHERST It’s been a place housing a nationally recognized English as a second language program where immigrants might come, and where researchers arrive to study poets and writers including Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Robert Francis and Julius.
AMHERST It’s been a place housing a nationally recognized English as a second language program where immigrants might come, and where researchers arrive to study poets and writers including Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Robert Francis and Julius.
While the identities of Black and Indigenous people have been systemically erased, for many those lineages are also defined by resilience, resistance and reclamation.
One of the winners of Mochi's Writing for Change essay contest describes how positionality and privileges inform our biases and how we can deconstruct and decolonize them.