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4th Blog Post- The Voices of Disabled people.
I’m sorry for what happened to your child. Strangers sorry were more damages than repair. Lets go around the room and I’ll start with you. Not the one in the wheelchair, I’m sure we know how she feels. She would give anything to walk again, to move her toes a little, to do a pirouette,…
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I Know Why You Stopped Smiling(Flash CNF)
I miss your smile, the one that exploded across your face when you heard the ice-cream man’s horn, peep-peeeeep. Your eyes danced with white youth, yellow happiness, a reflection of the evening sky. Then your smile started to fade, especially when he came around, when he sat beside your mom around the dining table; you…
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Spurned
By Kandice Thompson That night in the backseat of your car, I pushed my head in between the front seats as if that would make you hear me. You screamed at us, me mostly, in the same language you spurned. My throat worked painfully as I swallowed dry, working up the nerve but conscious of…
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Modeled Writing Task 1: Tackling Gender Bias
Imagine living in a society where women are deprived of their autonomy and free will. Being expected to cater to man’s way of living. There are more damaging stories about gender inequity than there are of society making a strong movement against it. There is always a fake stigma that women are sensitive beings and…
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Sarahlee F Flash Task: Speak Proper
Put your tongue between your teeth. You move your mouth as if you are heavily sedated with local anesthetics, perhaps street cocaine. I try, I have a heavy tongue that does not do much lifting. You know this because so is your mom’s, my grandma’s. I was punished for you raising me in an environment…
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The Great Navigator
Single file cars on empty roads, lush greenery, and fresh air, what was once my escape was now a path of painful memories. Memories of my navigator, the Leif Erikson of my youth, my flesh and blood compass. You made mastery of every route, knowing each location from nothing but a memory, you took pride…
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Lacking creativity in our creative spaces.
With all the advancements in film today ranging from CGI to enhancing the overall look and free of a film, to complete animation, there is a large gap in the originality and creativity of the Hollywood movie industry. Year after year millions of dollars is being pumped into feature films with the expectation of greatness…
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Stepping Stones
Modeled Writing Its my birthday today. I’m 23. Strong, healthy and sound. It rains today but I keep my smile as I roam around. I found it. I sigh. Peering through the windows, I can see joy inside. Opening the doors, I can smell the fresh coffee and freshly baked goods. I will my heart…
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Colourism
What is colourism? The Oxford dictionary states that Colourism is the prejudice or discrimination against individuals with a dark skin tone typically among people of the same ethnic or racial group. Colourism, is much more than this. See this 5minute voice to gain an oversight of colourism. For many years dark skin boys and girls…
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Miska G.’s Flash CNF: Naughty, Not Nice
We were all playing and laughing. So why am I the only one who is crying?


