Is this ethnography? The making of this film was extremely difficult. It takes the viewer from horror to the possibility of joy. I suffered a tremendous emotional downturn for the first four months working on those first three acts. While the two final sections pulled me back towards the living, it took another eight months… Read More
A Perspective Identity
I came from “dirty” “mixed-blood.” I’ve been hungry most of my life. All I ever knew was hard. But before, there was Cara. It was all I could do to wait for the lunch bell. She lingered across the field, by the wild honeysuckle that hung from the live oak tree. She came from Georgia.… Read More
The War on Drugs, A Government Sponsored Racist Initiative
© by Trace Taylor (2015) Header Image provided by Shutterstock The “War on Drugs” is a racist initiative. Statistics and informant-provided information support this conclusion. The examination of both qualitative and quantitative evidence is examined, and with substantive evidentiary weight, supports the argument that the war on drugs is an active government funded war on… Read More
The Boca Ciega High School Human Rights Project Anthology, 2017
© by Community Leveraged Learning (2017) This project was incredible. I wrote a Human Rights curriculum and combined this with the effective writing curriculum I produced for CLL (Community Leveraged Learning), my educational nonprofit. Dr. AnnMarie Gunn at USFSP served as an advisor on the project and hooked me up with a ninth-grade teacher, Nicole… Read More
