This is an in-person workshop that takes place at Inprint House.

This workshop is open for K-12 educators and staff. Up to 12 CPE hours are available for this workshop upon request.

A Liberatory, Multi-genre Writing Workshop for Educators

“The war of an artist with his society is a lover’s war, and he does, at his best, what lovers do, which is to reveal the beloved to himself and, with that revelation, to make freedom real.” – James Baldwin, “The Creative Process”

Creativity and social change share a long, intertwined history—artists all over the world have forged, led, and been born from movements against oppression. As contemporary writers and educators, we too are part and product of this legacy. Through this workshop, we will explore art, writing and music that has created lasting change: from Nobel laureates and courtesans in pre-Independence South Asia, to the folk singers and poets of the Harlem Renaissance, and from graffiti and murals in modern-day Egypt, to craftivist traditions across the Americas.

Through prompts and exercises based on these model texts, writers will generate their own authentic writing, and challenge internalized, interpersonal, and systemic oppression in a safe, compassionate space. The interplay of texts and prompts will offer writers communion with their cultural, familial, artistic, literary and revolutionary ancestors. This workshop will offer writers a liberatory writing process that will simultaneously honor, nourish and challenge them—all the way from that first generative spark to a revised, polished draft.