I’m a Lover & a Fighter: Why I’m Choosing to Value Tenderness While Trying to Fight Oppression August 6, 2017 by Taylor Carmen Leave a Comment Coming from a spoken word community, my writing has always been in the bones of my activism. I don’t know for sure how I feel about something until it’s been translated by my keyboard. So, for years I wrote the poems I felt an activist was obligated to write. My professional life was one of anger and revolution even when my personal life was something else entirely. … [Read more...]