Dr. Kendra N. Bryant Aya | s/her

Dr. Kendra N. Bryant Aya | s/her

"& so, lifting as we climb, onward & upward we go, struggling & striving, & hoping that the buds & blossoms of our desires will burst into glorious fruition ere long." –Mary Terrell

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October 7, 2024October 7, 2024 Kendra N. Bryant Aya

purchase we be theorizin–my debut poetry collection

August 22, 2024 Kendra N. Bryant Aya

on turning 45 (or just thinking about birthdays)

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Kendra + Cyndi | we.are.kindy on ZAMI NOBLA’s Podcast | HAPPY PRIDE

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CALL FOR POEMS, STORIES, & VISUAL ARTS

January 9, 2024January 9, 2024 Kendra N. Bryant Aya

A Queer Reading: On the Marginalized Banned Book

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Remembering Black Women during October’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month

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In Celebration of Mommy’s 75th Birthday

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Critical Race Theory Defined

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Hank Willis Thomas: ‘Embracing’ Today’s ‘Negro’ Artist & the Racial Mountain

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if it ain’t one thing, it’s another

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“celebration: (after reading bell hooks’ remembered rapture: the writer at work, 1999)”

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shet the hell up!: on the media being itself

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my first response to Biden & Harris’ appointments

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“What a friend we have in Jesus” (& Nikki): A musing response to Nikki Giovanni’s “A Good Cry”

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“Killing Rage”: Looking for the in between while Reflecting on Race, Racism, Whiteness, and White Rage

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We, the (Black) People: Contemplating America’s Democracy amid Two+ Pandemics

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I’m sick an’ tired (of white folks)

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Furious Flower + Nikki Giovanni: from the Black Arts Movement to Planet Mars

August 1, 2023 Kendra N. Bryant Aya

from Using a Handbook (cause Houston’s cancelling libraries)

July 26, 2023July 26, 2023 Kendra N. Bryant Aya

HB 187: Wite-Out

July 24, 2023July 24, 2023 Kendra N. Bryant Aya

In Defense of Composition Teachers (or a Review of James D. Williams’ Language Acquisition and Academic Writing)

July 3, 2023January 24, 2024 Kendra N. Bryant Aya

To the Tenth Power: A Call for Papers

April 4, 2021November 9, 2021 Kendra N. Bryant Aya

“a song flung up to heaven”: a poem for Maya Angelou

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