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A Workshop with Aracelis Girmay
For a week, from November 4th to November 10th, renounced poet Aracelis Girmay hosted a poetry workshop: Finding Comfort in the Strange. …
Tired in the Morning
http://backup.pkthompson.agnesscott.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Good_Morning.mp4 Created: December 21, 2018 Tired in the Morning is a multimedia piece combining photography and digital art. The piece depicts two girls, one sleeping on her side and the other siting up with her face resting on her propped knee, in unmade bed. The main tools used to create Tired in the Morning were: an iPhone…
Local/Regional/National Monument – Bibliotheque Schoelcher
Located in Fort-de-France, Martinique is Bibliotheque Schoelcher. Architect Pierre-Henri Picq, a disciple of Gustave Eiffel of the Eiffel Tower, designed the library in 1884. Picq constructed the library out of concrete, wrought iron, and wood as a precaution against Martinique’s salty ocean air and swampy lands. The library’s construction was completed in 1887 in Paris,…
Writing Assignment #4: What is global learning? How does traveling relate to intercultural understanding/literacy?
Global learning is not education through travel, but education of the world around you and its effect on you through an unbiased lens. If one wants to become a global student, traveling across oceans, continents, or even state borders are unnecessary. As an effect of colonization and globalization cultures have been displaced beyond their place…
Writing assignment #2: How does Sarah Manyika’s “Oyinbo” illustrate the fluidity of identity [and interconnectedness of identity components]?
In Sarah Manyika prose Oyinbo race is presented through the lens of an outsider becoming an insider. Born in Jos, Nigeria, Manyika reflected on the absence of race. While identity and separation did exist in Nigeria, and other African countries, majority of the conflicts were motivated by other factors of identify like socioeconomic class, nationalism,…
Writing Assignment 1 – How did colonization change the world
In the globalized world of the twenty-first century, it is hard to imagine a time when we were not as connected as we are now. With globalization, citizens around the globe are able to communicate with one another despite geographical boundaries. Even language barriers aren’t as much an issue due to the evolution of technology…
Letter to Myself
Dear Percie, Forewarning: In the time span of a month and a few days, you will be in Fort de France, Martinique. You will have traveled 1,963 miles from your home to arrive in the Caribbeans. It will noticeably be warmer there. For reference, as it is a cold and windy thirty-six degrees in Decatur,…
Shadow Less
The Inaugural Percy Neanderthal River Niger – 400,000 Years Ago In some form of words, either gibberish or whatever we spoke then, I said, “I love you”. Not because I loved her, rather it felt necessary. I had been breathing for far too many lunar cycles; knew time would send for me soon. Just not…
Finney-Kingston Essay
In Nikky Finney’s poem “Shark Bite” and Maxine Kingston’s memoir No Name Woman, modern women of color experience hauntings because of ancestral trauma. Both pieces feature ghosts established in the societal issues of their corresponding author’s environment. Nikky Finney, an African American poet with a prominent background in the Civil Rights Movement, produces a poem based…