Rambling Write/Right Next to You: Harping on Heartbreak in Three Acts

In this essay, the authors use co-authorship to constitute a cross-generational and differently situated woman of color embodied “we.” Drawing on the intimacy forged through the processes and practices of co-writing we address select prior experiences of heartbreak and grief within relationships of woman of color solidarity. Whereas heartbreak can mark endings sometimes endured silently and shamefully as a means of enduring or moving beyond wounds we instead choose harping as a method of visibility, connection, and worldmaking.