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Nichole Vaughan

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#66: I could just die

I could just die.

I could JUST DIE!!!

I could just die???

Nothing ever really dies.

Do you believe that?

I do.

Let yourself be

burned

There is creation

in destruction

There is revision

in rebirth

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Nichole Vaughan

Shaking words out of my big ol' dome onto the page. A glimpse of what I'm reading, watching, looking at, and thinking about.

#24: Part 2: Standard English Grammar is a Tool for White Supremacy

In her essay, “The End of White Innocence,” Cathy Park Hong writes, “English was not an expression of me, but a language that was out to get me, threaded with invisible trip wires that could expose me at the slightest misstep" (anyone who has watched Fox News has witnessed a host attacking someone's grammar or use of English when they cannot tackle and grapple with their logic). Her “bad English” and obvious Asian features combined, becoming the target that white Americans aimed their criticisms at; the worse her English and the less adept she was at picking up on American references and recognizing American pop culture symbols (she once wore a thrifted t-shirt to school with the Playboy bunny on it), the bigger the bullseye. The essay argues that literature, as a reflection of society, drapes its children in white innocence and nobility, something that is rarely granted to non-white children who are treated as adults when they are children, and infantilized in adulthood. One ...

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#24: Part 2: Standard English Grammar is a Tool for White Supremacy

In her essay, “The End of White Innocence,” Cathy Park Hong writes, “English was not an expression of me, but a language that was out to get...
#19: "The Undocumented Americans" by Karla Cornejo Villvícencío

The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio is a non-fiction compilation of stories of undocumented people living in the Unite...
#16 Baldwin quotes for now and always

I spent two days this week reading James Baldwin's No Name in the Street . It is a powerful memoir that is stitched with the same critic...
#53: Letter to the Board about Detracking

March 21, 2023 Dear Board of Trustees, I am writing this, and I hope that you take the time to read this in consideration of the agenda ite...
#25: "Declaration" by Tracy K. Smith

I'm getting ready to teach Beloved by Toni Morrison, and part of the unit includes front-loading thematic and historical texts to prepa...

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