"Using taboo topics to poetically break silences surrounding government failures and violations of human rights is una…"

"Custody and punishment for writing freed me of the fear I previously held of being imprisoned. Physical and emotional…"

"My multiple identities empower me to fashion my writing into an effective weapon fighting against injustices meted ou…"

"In my experience, there is much greater currency and power in my deployment of irreverent idioms of satire, mockery, …"

"The transgressive reversal of my role as an elite academic who chooses to write for (sexual and gender) minorities, p…"

"Not only is an educated Ugandan woman expected to respectfully serve and sustain the status quo, but her methods of r…"

"Codes of politeness demand that colonized, dominated, and subjugated peoples do not talk back to their captors, colon…"

"In fact, as expressed in one of my poems written in prison, I wear my prison sentence for poetry as a badge of honor."

"Double standards demand that feminine respectability bars women from articulating, writing, or deploying words, conce…"

"Good girls and respectable women are trained to avoid taboo topics and “bad words” particularly in their public artic…"