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Holding Black Women’s Sacred Knowledge in Higher Education
By now, you have heard about the massive number of Black women who have been laid off since the start of 2025. For me, it’s a reality that feels frightening and leaves me asking why—why are Black women so expendable in spite of what we provide to organizations and institutions, families, and communities? Why is…
For Our Readers: A Call to Contribute
Some of you have been with Aya Collective Publishing from the beginning. Perhaps you were one of our first workshop participants in 2017. Maybe you attended one of our early public readings, gathered with us in a writing space, or picked up a copy of The Gospel According to a Black Woman, the first book…
The Work Is Connected: The Ecosystem We Are Building
This past Saturday, we kicked off the first of two writing fellowships that we recently launched: Tracing Our Spiritual and Cultural Legacies. Seven of us gathered at the Cultural Wellness Center, seated around the table, and began sharing our inspiration and motivation for being part of this work over the next year. Our backgrounds and…
The Stories We Must Tell Now
It was fifteen years ago—my daughter was about to turn one in just a few days—when I realized that my grandmother had dementia. I went home to Milwaukee to visit my family over the long holiday weekend, and my mother warned me, “Your grandmother is starting to repeat herself, I believe she is showing beginning…
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About the Aya Collective
The Aya Collective MN (formerly known at the Kinky Curly Theological Collective) is a space for Black and African women that focuses on nurturing writers. We do this by centering our spirituality and sacred practices, convening opportunities for Black women to write, and focus on writing in community with each other in order to provide support and encouragement to the collective. Find out more about us here.
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