essays

It included essays by Laotian people living under long-term U.S. bombardment along with drawings by children who depicted the horrors all around them.

I’m often paid very little for the work that takes the most out of me: my personal essays.

The Combahee River Collective Statement of 1977, several of whose contributors would also have their essays and other writing featured in “This Bridge Called My Back,” offered this still much-needed intervention:

Though written by one individual, the resulting essays are usually not signed because they indicate they express the consensus of the board.

"They don't write good essays, they are not critical thinkers."