“I had hundreds of books under my skin already. " ― Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road
“I had hundreds of books under my skin already. " ― Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road
Set against the madness-making conditions of southeastern terrains, Under My Skin, is an interactive, collage-style, digital memoir made up of snapshots of my early childhood, adolescence and young adulthood.
These snapshots take the shape of traditional and experimental essays, found poems, collected journals, and a docu-poem/digital story. Each is accompanied by reflection questions/writing prompts, and paired readings.
This project endeavors to continue a lineage of Black feminist storysharing that uncovers, recovers, and (re)creates models of possibility across time and space by curating opportunities for southern Black women and femmes to engage in a healing, liberatory archival praxis.
“No one could wish for a more advantageous heritage than that bequeathed to the black writer in the South: a compassion for the earth, a trust in humanity beyond our knowledge of evil, and an abiding love and justice. We inherit a great responsibility as well, for we must give voice to centuries not only of silent bitterness and hate but also of neighborly kindness and sustaining love.”
-Alice Walker