Chapter 14: Writing for our Lives: A Love Letter to Black, Indigenous, and Women of Color(s)1
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Published:2022
Reanae McNeal, 2022. "Writing for our Lives: A Love Letter to Black, Indigenous, and Women of Color(s)1", Racial Dimensions of Life Writing in Education, Lucy E. Bailey, KaaVonia Hinton
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As a healer, activist, and scholar in gender, women’s, and sexuality studies and Africana studies, my work often meets at the intersection of some of the most dynamic and innovative research in academia. I engage in life writing primarily in the womanist tradition. One of womanisms’ central components is spirituality and it is defined as
a social change perspective rooted in Black women’s and other women of color’s everyday experiences and methods of problem solving in everyday spaces, extended to the problem of ending all forms of oppression for all people, restoring the balance between people and the environment/nature, and reconciling human life with the spiritual dimension. (Phillips, 2006, p. xx)
