Teaching and empowering young people who are queer, trans. and/or disabled, through the lens of the literary arts and black radical tradition.
Taiwana co-facilitating the End Youth Prisons MN Launch at Open Book, Minneapolis, 2022.
Workshops & Residencies
Alternatives to the Youth Carceral System (one-part session)
An Intro to Abolition Thru Theory, Story, & Creative Writing (three-part session)
Applying Abolition (one-part session)
Fiction for Social Change (two-part session)
Life After Burnout: Lessons from Abolition & Social Movements (one-part session)
Classes
Abolitionist Fiction (12 weeks)
Speculative Fiction by Women (6 weeks)
Contemporary Mythology (single session)
10th Grade English Language Arts (18 weeks)
Writing Radically Imaginative Futures (4 weeks)
Fiction for BIPOC Writers (two-part-session)
Humor & Literary Resistance (single session)
Intro to Creative Writing (9 weeks)
Intro to Fiction (18 weeks)
Intro to Poetry & Performance (12 weeks)