Community Empathy Write: Friendship and Social Mobility
Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes
20th Anniversary Human Trafficking and Social Justice Conference
Light in Dark Places: Art as a Resource in Healing This exhibit will feature the poetry-informed research of the Fearless Writers (FW) and collaboration between Rogers High School and UToledo social work program. This year, the students have focused their writing exploration on youth leadership and human trafficking. FW was also part of an ongoing…
Creative Expression: Recovering from a Crisis
When we returned in-person at Rogers High School fall of 2021 we attempted to go back to our old structure. Freshman free write, sophomore autobiography, junior and senior social justice research. Our juniors started to brainstorm social justice ideas but as we began writing into social injustice prompts they demanded we go back to writing…
Black Issues Conference 2022
https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/E2bTnDJKJ3fkUOzwFy-0aHJl166ysr7ftPvioBXgdrrRfct99kTkWuO02BQlf07j.wMSwTZnJ2AuDFTfG The above link will play a (rough) recording of the slideshow below. With the writing shared at the Black Issues Conference on Sept 9, 2022 at Bowling Green State University. We are so grateful for the support and encouragement of the Office of Multicultural Affairs and the Black Student Union over the past several…
DaMarco Hill
https://us-lti.bbcollab.com/recording/fde12c142feb4d6e9f288bff96a56c2f The above link is a recording of Marco’s poem shared at the Black Issues Conference, “If these walls could talk” DaMarco Hill who goes by Marco grew up in Detroit, Michigan. He earned a BA in Psychology from UToledo. He is currently a part-time MSW student in the social work program at UToledo. “When…
Using our voice to raise awareness about a mental health crisis: COVID, depression, and young women of color
The following two poems were selected by the Fearless Writers as the best student and mentor representations of our 6-week focus on the rising numbers of teens with depression. At the bottom of these two pieces you will find a slide show of written pieces from Fearless Writers participants both University of Toledo and Rogers…
Human Trafficking & Social Justice Conference 2021: High School Student Writing
Student Poems Jalyn Brewington Rogers High School Senior inspired by Thanksgiving images I held it all inside of my heart. I held the pain, I held the anger, I held the grief. I pushed everyone away who tried to help me. I became a walking time bomb, always releasing the bitterness on the wrong person.…
Human Trafficking and Social Justice Conference 2021
Featured Artist: Jessica Flores is a recent graduate from the University of Toledo BSW program. Jessica was inspired to share her poetry and artwork after reading some of the Fearless Writers work completed during the COVID shut down. The Third of NovemberWritten by Jessica Flores (all rights reserved) Will we remember the third of November?A…
Human Trafficking and Social Justice Conference: Mentor Writing
Mentor’s Work Abigail Hernandez Physical Therapy Student If you make yourself a strong believer, they will believe. Make yourself a strong believer, and they will listen. Become a strong believer and make yourself believe. It starts from within From the fire that fuels you. “if you can believe it, you can achieve it” And so…
September 2020
Inspired by Wendell Berry’s ‘How to be a Poet’September 23, 2020 There are no unsacred placesfits as I sit at my makeshift workspacebed behind mesmall child watching cartoonsand I writeput pen to paperallow sacredness to falllike incense filling the churchhigh holy daysthe birds are rattlingthe leaves of the elder maplecreating nests and songsharing sacred notesthrough…
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