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Black Woman, Noemia De Sousa May 2017

Black Woman, Noemia De Sousa

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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Mother Of Mankind & Of The World, Kardo Bestilo May 2017

Mother Of Mankind & Of The World, Kardo Bestilo

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

poetry


Ana The Prophetess In The Temple, Adelia Prado May 2017

Ana The Prophetess In The Temple, Adelia Prado

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

poetry


Silent Emergency To The Children Of Africa, Vera Duarte May 2017

Silent Emergency To The Children Of Africa, Vera Duarte

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

poetry


The F Word: A Compilation Of Feminist Poetry, Chelsea Adams Apr 2017

The F Word: A Compilation Of Feminist Poetry, Chelsea Adams

Honors Projects

This is an interdisciplinary project between creative writing and women’s studies that attempts to showcase different aspects of feminism from the female perspective through poetry. Throughout my poems, there are multiple different voices raising concern and awareness about a variety of subject matters within feminism, such as basic human rights, violence against women, sexuality, current (and possibly future) political moves and motives for feminism, how feminism is perceived by the public, how women are often times viewed by men and this society, and how feminism and feminists are perceived by anti-feminists. Some of these poems come from my own personal …


Frida's Daughter, Myrta Vida Apr 2017

Frida's Daughter, Myrta Vida

Theses

The purpose of my creative writing is to highlight a group of U.S. citizens still woefully underrepresented in literature proper: the Latinx middle class. I’m keenly interested in exploring Puerto Rican and first- and second-generation Latinx immigrant stories. Even though some of the experiences from these groups have been elegantly visited by writers such as Giannina Braschi, Sandra Cisneros, Junot Diaz, Julia Alvarez, and others, there are nuances to the Latinx middle class experience that are yet to be uncovered. Being stuck in the cultural, linguistic, socio-economic, and political middles in a country that has recently taken a largely nationalist …


G:, Taylor Lafe Cantrall Jan 2017

G:, Taylor Lafe Cantrall

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.