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"All I Need Is One Mic":A Black Feminist Community Meditation on the Work, the Job, and the Hustle ( yet I have seen and heard nothing of a digital classroom approach that matches the current, public Black digital pedagogies that we are all living in. I am sure that this is what Marvin Gaye had in mind when he sang: make me wanna holla way they do my life. Only the imaginative can think up new possibilities for classrooms and communities right now. To that end, I am opting for a Black feminist narrative-meditation towards such imaginative work. Movements towards a Narrative-Meditative Essay This essay circles multiple narrative-meditations in relation to the various communities in which I work that link specifically with Black feminist ways of knowing and doing. As a series of meditations rather than a presentation of research-driven answers and findings, I want to ask explicit questions for renewed focus and presence. My inspiration for narrative-meditative writing comes from Alexis Pauline Gumbs's "17th Floor: A Pedagogical Oracle from/with Audre Lorde," where Gumbs offers what she calls a poetic oracle as she uses and is used by Audre Lorde to travel us back to Lorde's 1974 poem, "Blackstudies." In this "freeform dream villanelle," Lorde meditates on her teaching+life as a Black lesbian feminist in English departments at the City University of New York during the radical protests of Black and Puerto Rican youth of...
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