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Liked Slipknot in 8th grade 🤘🏾 | #ChristianSchoolSurvivor ⛪💔 | Writing a book about the apocalypse 🌋 | @newschoolwrites alum ✏ | dianca.potts@gmail ✉️
Jun 3, 2020 72 tweets 40 min read
I've been seeing a lot of recommended reading lists on here and IG and it's wonderful, but many of the lists include the same names. Here's a few titles that I'd love to see more widely shared. Narratives: Poems in the Tradition of Black Women by Cheryl Clarke abebooks.com/servlet/Search… Image
Jan 19, 2019 33 tweets 14 min read
I attended a Fundamentalist Baptist school from k5-8th grade, a Mennonite high school from 9th-12th grade, and a liberal arts Christian college for two years before transferring to a non-religious university. As you might imagine, it was traumatizing. #ExposeChristianSchools The textbooks at my Fundamentalist Baptist school were published by Bob Jones University. I was one of the few Black students there & the only Black student in my class. My "Christian" teachers treated me differently. My "Christian" classmates bullied me. #ExposeChristianSchools