Meet Reelaviolette.
Reelaviolette Botts-Ward can be considered the voice of reason, an artist, and a non-traditional fellowship collector from Philadelphia, PA. She is the originator of blackwomxnhealing, an intergenerational organization of Black Women engaged to wholeness, where she curates restorative cycles, presentations, education, and analysis “for us, by us.” She is currently a Professor of African American Studies at Merritt College and a doctoral applicant (Ph.D. student) in African American Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Gender, Women, and Sexuality at the University of California, Berkeley.
Her study examines Black Women’s healing terms in Oakland. She has received her BA in Sociology and Anthropology from the Historical Black College, the one and only Spelman College, and her MA in African American Studies with an Anthropology collection from UCLA. She resides and is even invested in making her scholarly activity convenient to readers, practicing creativity and rhyme as necessary accessories. Her original and first novel of poems was, “Mourning My Inner [black/girl] Child”.
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This depicts many stories and experiences that many of us can relate to, especially regarding our innocence young black girls either with being an unabashed display of girlhood delicacy, family mourning and substantiated retaining in her removal of various events and many individuals, author Reelaviolette Botts-Ward travels throughout and even informal as well as special rendezvous with her mother(s), her birthplace, her essence as she goes on the pending ground of the journey of grieving her most profound scars and revolutions, Reelaviolette designs and reveals the challenges of Black girlhood, forfeiture of Black motherhood, including some indirect benefaction of degradation. In recounting her memoir, she represents so many of our own. Reelaviolette’s poems encourage Black women to penetrate our healing and focus the young girl inside herself who has a divine message for the world to hear and digest too.
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