Originally published in Fired Up! Green Fire Writers When the picketing started at Glen Echo Amusement Park, I was 14 and my mother wouldn’t let me go. “It’s too dangerous,” she said. “Besides, you have a job.” My family had moved to the suburban Maryland neighborhood called Bannockburn two years earlier. I had my first Read More
At the recent Straw Dog Writers’ Guild roundtable on writing for social justice, we were asked to consider our biggest fear in writing work that challenges the status quo. Make the fear a character, Elli Meeropol suggested, and have a conversation with it. Primed by reading and hearing aloud the words of Patricia Smith’s Read More
