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poet| artist| community curator 🌿
uc berkeley doctoral candidate 💕
learning to care for my own soul ✨

[reelaviolette botts-ward @reelaviolette]

MY FIRST BOOK IS OFFICIALLY AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE!!✨

i wrote this for all the black women learning to love the little blackgirl inside you 💞

thank you @_alexelle + @DrGuySheftall + @RainaDeleon for your reflections on my work.

pre-order link: https://t.co/DhpKxvAnxk

[reelaviolette botts-ward @reelaviolette]

@itskerrii WE LOVE YOU BABY GIRL, WE ALL ROOTING FOR U!!! U MAKE BLACK WOMEN EVERYWHERE SO SO PROUD ♥️♥️♥️♥️

[RichWife🥂 @BlvckBarbie]

Excited to read!

[UYS @UniquelyUSummit]

We do not shame nor censor ourselves. We write to get free.

[UYS @UniquelyUSummit]

We use Black Girl Poetics as a form of healing & liberation. We write about the joys and the pains of Black girlhood - creatively, poetically and unapologetically. We explore the depths of our own voice and affirm our relationship to our own stories.

[UYS @UniquelyUSummit]

For the Black girls who write to get free. And to heal!

“We write to get free.”

Lab Instructor: @reelaviolette
Mondays at 3:30 PM EST - 60 Minutes
4 Weeks: Monday, June 28 – Monday, July 19

🔗https://t.co/Eg9l4HTEpC

(Deadline to enroll is Tuesday, June 15.)

[reelaviolette botts-ward @reelaviolette]

see y’all soon ✨🦋

[12 On Your Side WWBT Richmond @12OnYourSide]

The brand new mural, honoring Braxton “Brax” Baker, will be unveiled this weekend in Richmond’s North Side. https://t.co/Jr7UTzfb5p

[12 On Your Side WWBT Richmond @12OnYourSide]

The brand new mural, honoring Braxton “Brax” Baker, will be unveiled this weekend in Richmond’s North Side. https://t.co/Jr7UTzfb5p

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@megancedmonds YAAASSDD CONGRATULATIONSSSS BOO!!!!!!😍😍♥️♥️♥️♥️

[Savannah Shange @savannahshange]

What is your highest wish for Black girls?
How can *you* help make it come true?
We asked folks to respond with their commitments to Black girlhood, & placed them in a permanent installation in the window of Studio Grand near Lake Merritt. Stop by with offerings if you are local!

[Savannah Shange @savannahshange]

Thank you @blkfemfuture for gathering us in the spirit of Black girlhood - here’s to the world Black girls deserve.

[Savannah Shange @savannahshange]

Ancestral spirit was strong with the rain & wind at the #DefendBlackGirls altar for #MaKhiaByrant in Oakland. Sage medicine burning strong as the young queen Tianni from @YoungWomenFree read the names of our dead & @reelaviolette spoke a true word about our Blackgirl selves.

[reelaviolette botts-ward @reelaviolette]

@jladamx thank you so much for this sis,, continuing to send you love and healing, xo <3

[reelaviolette botts-ward @reelaviolette]

@erinbecreating wowwww yes sis so deep, you know i love me some jbg, baby girls be theorizinggg okay?! love it

[Arts Research Center @ArtsResearchCtr]

Our week-long celebration of our Spring 2021 Poetry & the Senses Fellows’ original work continues with our wonderful graduate fellows @reelaviolette and @nowarwarren!

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@_BK_HaveItMyWay yaaayyy thank you so much for supportin my work sis Xo

[Bri K @_BK_HaveItMyWay]

Look what came in the mail today @reelaviolette so excited and so very proud of you!!

[reelaviolette botts-ward @reelaviolette]

@cdariusg yaayyyy thank you so much for the support fam!!! :) <3