Tune in to hear my first expert, Ms. Amanda Bennett, in this upcoming episode titled“Literature as a Medium to Process Trauma”. Amanda and I talk about the experience of students with marginalized identities in higher ed, spirituality, and the literary works of black women like Toni Morrison and Hortense Spillers.

Amanda Bennett is a queer Black Southern poet and educator living in Durham, North Carolina. She is the author of a dissertation titled Developing a Vocabulary of Feeling: The Spirituality of Black Feminist Self-Repair on practices of Black femme magic within Black women’s literary history. Previously, Amanda has published her short fiction and poetry in Obsidian, Triangle Poets Series, The Concern Reading Series, Murder Journal, and Jellyfish Magazine. She is also the founder of the Black feminist consulting and education collective, define&empower. You can follow define&empower on instagram and TikTok at @defineandempower.co and listen to their Black Feminist Hotline podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.