Aya Collective MN
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Finding Your Voice in a World Full of Noise: A Guide for Black Women Writers
The noise around you grows louder every day, drowning out the words waiting to be spoken. For Black women writers, carving out space to find your voice in a world full of endless chatter can be a challenge. But what if finding and exercising your voice didn’t have to be so hard. What if you…
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Reconsidering Eve: The Experience
What if everything we’ve been taught about Eve was only part of the story? Reconsidering Eve: The Experience is an invitation to journey inward—a sacred exploration of self, spirit, and the stories that have shaped us. Rooted in the commitment to liberate the hearts and minds of Black women, this experience asks us to look…
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Meet Shakita Thomas Kpetay, PhD
✨ Meet Dr. Shakita Thomas Kpetay ✨ One of the newest voices at Aya Collective Publishing, Dr. Shakita Thomas Kpetay is currently co-authoring a powerful forthcoming book with Tamien Elder, centering Black women’s experiences living with endometriosis. A proud Chicago native, Shakita brings a deep commitment to community education through her work with Nu Skool…
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Sacred Saturdays with Meelah Crawford, Recap
Sacred Saturdays provides an opportunity for Black women to come together and write early Saturday mornings before we get into the meat of the day. These times together are focused on connection with each other and the spirit within, deepening our capacity to build relationships and do the thing we love to do the most:…
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3 Reasons to Step Into Your Calling as a Writer Today
At Aya Collective Publishing, we believe Black women’s stories are sacred. Our words carry humor, grace, candor—and truth. Through storytelling, we pass down eternal messages. We walk in the legacy of Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Nikki Giovanni, and so many others who used language to move heaven and earth—filling libraries…
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You Won’t Bust Hell Wide Open
Reconsidering Eve: Towards a Deepened Consciousness is a book that allows us to reimagine what we have thought about Eve, what we have thought about Blackwoman hood, as a result of our sacred texts. Developed over 13 years, this text gives readers the capacity to push back, redefine, and reclaim who we are as Black…
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Upcoming Events with the Aya Collective
Teaching Tuesdays, November 29th Our Teaching Tuesday event featuring authors from the Let the Black Women Say Ase’ has been rescheduled for Tuesday, November 29 from 6 – 7.30 pm CST. Click on the link to register so that we know you are coming. Register. And if you haven’t already, don’t forget to get your copy of…
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Let the Black Women Say Ase’
Join the Aya Collective for the launch of our first anthology, Let the Black Women Say Ase’. Asé is a word of affirmation, of agreement, that the storytellers in this anthology give to each other. Rather than solely looking for that affirmation from the outside world, the storytellers gather together to share and bear witness…
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Let the Black Women Say Ase’
The Aya Collective MN is an organization for Black women that focuses on deepening our writing practice by centering our spirituality and building community. Formerly called the Kinky Curly Theological Collective, the Aya Collective offers writing workshops, coaching opportunities, and collaborative projects where participants have been coming together to share ideas since 2018. This year,…
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Critical Race Theory
There has been so much buzz and sound bites around Critical Race Theory (CRT) and what it is. I decided to put together a primer for folks who are still wondering. Though some may dismiss the theory, and not see it as important, we must understand the ways that the system works to undermine the…
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