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In “Love is a Form of Protest” participants will read and discuss poems from Jacqui Germain’s Bittering the Wound, a collection of poetry about the author’s participation in the Ferguson uprising. Through generative exercises and prompts, participants will take inspiration from Germain’s emotionally charged poems to create their own creative nonfiction, lyric essays and poems about the principled ways we can care for one another in the face of state violence.

Ariana Brown is a queer Black Mexican American poet based in Houston, TX. She is the author of the poetry collections We Are Owed (2021) and Sana Sana (2020). She holds a BA in African Diaspora Studies and Mexican American Studies and an MFA in poetry, as well as an MS in Library Science. She is a 2014 national collegiate poetry slam champion and owes much of her practice to Black performance communities led by Black women poets from the South. She has been writing, performing and teaching poetry for over ten years.