Writing Our Way Toward Justice: A Black Lives Matter Writing Contest and Blog for SUNY Potsdam Students New d eadline : Monday, October 12 at 11 p. m. Nine cash prizes are available. SUNY Potsdam Students, how do you respond to the Black Lives Matter movement? How could you best impact our shared future to achieve the goals of racial justice in the U.S.? Please share your short writing on one of the prompts listed below. We will publish a number of your writings in a public blog. We hope to invite responses to your writing from the student community and to share videorecorded readings of some pieces. Eligible writers: We welcome writing from SUNY Potsdam students of all identities and backgrounds, whether racial, national, linguistic, gender, class, and/or abilities. Nine Cash Prizes: Our panel will choose pieces to publish and will award prizes to some of those. We plan on a minimum of six $50 prizes and three $...
SUNY Potsdam Writers’ Block Statement on Racism and Peer Tutoring of Writing Draft in progress; please check back. As of August 24, 2020 Actions must match words. In this statement I strive to articulate the values behind our writing center work as well as goals we can and should realistically achieve. As director of the Writers’ Block, I know that Black Lives Matter and Black literacies matter. I grieve the loss of Black lives to police violence and the stress and fear that racial violence imposes on people of color. I am committed to doing more to challenge racism. I also grieve the loss of Indigenous people’s lives and Latinx people’s lives to police violence, as well as people with mental illness and disabilities, who are also vulnerable to this violence and its ripple effects. We must do better to prevent such violence across our criminal justice system and to learn about the underlying forms and histories of racism that shapes our society and our cross-racial interac...