This post is just a briefing on writing that I've cleaned up and will be posting on here shortly.
These writings reflect me from a personally academic standpoint. This is just to say that, when you're in school, and regardless of the level, you always have to take a step back in some type of way. There's always pressure put upon you to conform to some standard and by it you are judged. This course I've been taking on African American Women's Rhetoric has been just... mindblowing. For one, I don't think I've ever had this much freedom academically. I've been able to say and do what I want with my writing and I can honestly say that I think it's more positive than any other methodology could ever be. When you allow someone with as big a mouth as me to just go off in typical black woman fashion, not only are you getting an unfiltered truth and break down of the real world according to me, but you're also allowing me the chance to think rhetorically (which is something I often don't do). Not many educators do this, so shout out to Dr. Kynard, cause she's mad real! All that, too fly...you get it.
I titled this piece with nostalgia in mind because nostalgia is really what I'm feeling as I write this. I have an overwhelming sense of growth where my writing is concerned, even if my thought patterns haven't changed. I've realized that the rhetoric of a Black woman is nostalgia when she is actively able to step back after enacting change and saying "I did that!" *Tamar's voice*. I don't think there's anything greater than knowing that your being proactive is bringing the change you want or envision happening in some way. If your voice and your message and the how of your whole everything is the way that you accomplish this, then that's a beautiful thing! It's been encouraged in me this semester and throughout my entire college career, so I'm definitely eager to go out and share what I've learned.
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