In my third year as an MFA student, I received an email from my English department requesting that I schedule and pass a Spoken English...
24.042015September 10, 2019
Report from the Field– Speak Test: The Silencing of the Racialized Body
By Jessica ReidyIn Reports from the FieldTags A Hunger So Wide and Deep, ableism, activism, Ally Day, Audre Lorde, Becky W. Thompson, classism, creative coping, creative survival, creative writing community, eating disorder, ESL, Feminism, homophobia, hope, immigrant, kyriarchy, marginalized people, MFA, misogyny, naturalized citizen, people of color, poetry, Racialized Body, racism, rage, reading list, sexual assault, shame, silence, Sister Outsider, SPEAK Test, Spoken English Exam, systemic racism, teaching, transphobia, trauma, university, white America, Women of Color, writing, xenophobia