Life Writing

Through first-person stories, Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah explores how desire, religion, queer life, trauma, and community shape sexual freedom across African and diasporic contexts.

A Latina feminist collective uses testimonios to connect life stories, academic institutions and collaborative knowledge without erasing differences.

Mary Prince’s 1831 narrative links enslavement to bodily labor, family separation, marriage, and constrained freedom, while its editorial framing raises questions about testimony and authority.

Writing as Linda Brent, Harriet Jacobs shows how slavery governed Black women's bodies, motherhood, and family - and how concealment, labor, and authorship became means of survival and testimony.

This 1850 dictated narrative follows Truth’s escape from slavery in New York, her pursuit of a son illegally sold south, and her efforts to claim authority through religious interpretation and public speech.