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“Something Good Distracts Us from the Bad”
Girls Cultivating Disruption
Crystal Leigh Endsley
, used her poem to inform us that desire and violence co-exist where she comes from because “down here, we will kiss and then kill you” (Fieldnotes, April 2016). Clarsey complicates the controlling narrative with more context in her following spoken line
Lolita Speaks
Disrupting Nabokov’s “Aesthetic Bliss”
Michele Meek
child incest victim. In this article, I examine several revisionary texts that present Lolita’s voice as a first person narrator, such as Kim Morrissey’s Poems for Men Who Dream of Lolita (1992) ; Pia Pera’s Lo’s Diary (published in Italian in 1995
The Girl in the GIF
Reading the Self into Girlfriendship
Akane Kanai
( Karolides 1991 ; Pantaleo 2013 ) as well as in creating intersections with the study of New Literacies ( Hammer 2007 ; Sanders 2012 ). If we draw on Rosenblatt’s germinal text, The Reader, the Text, the Poem (1978) the act of reading can be understood
A Call to Action
Creativity and Black Girlhood
Crystal Leigh Endsley
lyrics, one she calls an “anti-narrative photo poem” because it furthers the experience of discontinuity, resulting in further “blurred boundaries” (101). The structure of the photo poem is jagged, giving one a sense of walking on tiptoe, or spinning; it
Passing the Talking Stick
Resilience-Making through Storytelling
Tammy Williams
Indigenous Women's Utopia; this is the name of the girls’ group of which they are members and the title of their book. The short entries include poems, personal stories, and images. There are stories of abuse, drugs, sexualized violence, and misogyny but
Natalie Clark
. I pierce remembering on my face. You will never enter me again. I have marked my territory this time. You are not welcome. Oppression melted, Reveals stone, sinew, bone. Souls syrup on my tongue I know my map my body Do you? I wrote this poem in my
The New Girl Loves Chemistry
The Story of a Forgotten Era
Katherine Darvesh
subject. The students formed clubs, delighted in field trips, wrote poems and short stories about their experiences in the lab, and, in some cases, drew charming sketches of laboratory equipment with beakers, test tubes, and clamps that appear to come to
Claudia Mitchell
, Louisiana” to showcase how these girls take up the challenge against “the powerful discourses that work to constrain them.” She illustrates how the use of what she calls cultivated disruption in the poems of three girls, aged 14, 15, and 16 respectively, to
Education and Change in the Late Ottoman Empire and Turkey
Space, Time, and Text
Benjamin C. Fortna
political socialization. 23 In another reader, a poem entitled “The Schoolboy” ( Mektepli ) written by Mehmed Emin (another of whose poems would become the lyrics for the Turkish national anthem) appears. An accompanying illustration shows the boy framed by