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Sonya McCoy Wilson
www.sonyamccoywilson.com
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This space engages academics, teachers, writers, and students in literary, cultural, and rhetorical discourse. Many of my posts and much of my fiction interrogate the notion of race in America. I also display my work in a way that I hope inspires readers to think and write.
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For the Love of Students

I had a wonderful opportunity to present at the NISOD International Conference on Teaching and Leadership.  In short, the focus of our research is to contextualize Arts and Sciences courses at t...

23 h ago

Open Letter To My Mom

Dear Mom, When I was growing up, I thought you were the most beautiful woman in the world.  With your beautiful figure and big bouncy hair, I really thought you looked like a movie star.  Y...

13 may 12

Why Ann Romney Hasnt Worked a Day in her Life

This week, democratic pundit and strategist, Hilary Rosen, accused Ann Romney, the wife of the Republican nominee-apparent, of "having never worked a day in her life."  Rosens comments s...

17 apr 12

Justice for All

Last week, after 45 days of public and private outrage, protest marches, and over a million signatures in online petitions calling for the arrest of George Zimmerman, Zimmerman was finally ...

17 apr 12

We are ALL Trayvon Martin

Over the past week, the Trayvon Martin murder has mined the depths of black fear and unearthed an age-old human rights issue.  I would argue, though, that this tragedy strikes at the core of Ame...

22 mar 12

Heed the Call

If you bring forth what is inside you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is inside you, what is inside you will destroy you. I have often times quoted Julia Alvarezs ...

11 mar 12

I Am Because They Were

Toni Morrison bell hooks Audre Lorde Beverly Guy Sheftall Maya Angelou Nikki Giovanni Octavia Butler Sonia Sanchez Alice Walker Rebecca Walker Nella Larsen Zora Neale Hurston Anna J. Cooper Francis E...

26 feb 12

Are You Making Natural Hair Look Bad?

The natural hair revolution has unearthed a few zealots who may be sending some offensive messages to the non-natural hair population. I was talking to one of my non-natural friends recently.  W...

16 feb 12

Too Black Too Strong

  Kathleen Cleaver and Black Panther co-founder Bobby Seale Oakland, CA 1968 This is the first in a series of posts that I plan to showcase this Black History Month.  This post will not con...

04 feb 12

Curls, Color, and Race

Since my locs big chop a year ago, I have learned a few things about black folks and natural hair.  Until my "big chop anniversary," I wore a wash n go variation every day (pictured belo...

22 jan 12

End Piracy, Not Liberty - Google

     TAKE A STAND!  LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD!  Sign the Petition

19 jan 12

I Still Have a Dream

"That one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood...When we allow freedom to r...

16 jan 12

What it Means to be Them

photo courtesy of blackstarproject.org After all of the chaotic, sweaty, frenzied energy that goes into making it all happen - registration, keeping enrollment numbers up, student retention, increase...

10 jan 12

On Hair: Curl Enhancing Smoothie

Since I have transcended my TWA (teeny weeny afro) phase, the sky has opened, the divine light has come down, and the Hallelujah Chorus is playing. For the past year since my BC (big chop), I had bee...

07 jan 12

Tribute to the Black Hair Revolution

Vlogger kinkypeaches1&nbs p;illustrates the ideas I blogged about in my Kinky Curly Paradigm post.  Enjoy!

03 jan 12

Cheers for the New Year!

Happy New Year!   I think I am not alone in welcoming a new year, as 2011 was often turbulent and filled with many global highs and lows.  2011 was, as People Magazine proclaimed,...

01 jan 12

Kinky Curly Paradigm

          A year ago, I decided to cut off my locked hair of 8 years.  I blogged about my "Big Chop", its significance, and the politics of black womens hair. &n...

30 dec 11

Drama in the Fitting Room

I think its safe to say that every woman would like nothing better than to sachet into the fitting room with several, single-digit-sized skinny jeans and slip effortlessly into them without needing a...

06 dec 11

Thankful

So many of us Writing professors care so deeply about our students, the academy, teaching.  That, I think, is the message that gets lost among all of the state and federal battles.  Ultimat...

21 nov 11

The First Black Lady: Re-Constructing Black Womanhood

Michelle Obama Vogue 2009Photo by Annie Leibovitz I often update my Facebook status with whatever random theoretical thoughts happen to come up.  Today I posted the following: Ok, so this just o...

30 oct 11

If...

As an individual, Rudyard Kipling was probably a real SOB.  He was an imperialist, a racist Im sure, and author of the infamous, "White Mans Burden."  However, there is one poem, to...

15 oct 11

My Plant Based Diet Cured My Hypertension

Im writing this post as follow-up to a post I wrote earlier this year singing praises to plant based diets.  And now, I decided that I would "testify" (keeping with the tradition of...

27 sep 11

The Taming of the Shrew: The Struggles of the Alpha Female

The dialectic of how women would function in positions of power began, of course, during second wave feminism when women broke through the professional glass ceilings that had heretofore prevented th...

04 sep 11

Bad Apples

If youve worked in any professional setting in America (corporate, education, government, non-profit), youve seen and taken a personality test.  There are the Jung and Briggs Meyers tests that a...

15 aug 11

Teachers Have Sick Patients Too

As the American system of education continues to decline, the grumblings of college professors all over the country rise to a rallying cry.  At every level of higher education (the community col...

21 jul 11

A New Story by Sonya McCoy Wilson Appears in Phatitude Literary Magazine

Check out my new story: "The Test"in the Winter 2011 issue of Phatitude Literary Magazine Available on Amazon "The Test" As the teachers approached her, they could see that ...

14 jul 11

On Daddys Girls

I loved my father so much, I wanted to be him.  I wanted to run like wild horses, as fast as the wind, because my Daddy was a runner, and thats how fast he was.  I wanted to wear jeans and ...

19 jun 11

The Traffic in Black Beauty

Vogue Italia "Black Issue" 2011 Black women are the most beautiful women in the world (full stop).  But, of course, Im biased because Im a Black woman with a Black mother and Black aunti...

17 jun 11

Racism or Science: The Sins of the Father are Visited Upon the Son

I am teaching my "Composition and Rhetoric" students the art of argument.  For the past few weeks, they have been writing Rhetorical Responses and applying the critical reading and criti...

24 may 11

In Honor of Mothers Day...

Because its Mothers Day, I thought I would post a short story of mine that the Tidal Basin Review published last year.  I think the story says so much more than my prose could say today: &#...

08 may 11

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