Dear Mississippi, Your silence is a show tune. But you’ve sung this tune for far too long. In 1955, there was the gruesome murder of Emmett Till. Silence. In 1963, the assassination of Medgar Evers and the bombing of Birmingham’s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, where four Black girls were murdered inside a sanctuary. Silence. In […]
Author Archives: Gay Pasley
Gay Pasley is a multi-hyphenate, award-winning Black American and Antiguian writer, actor, nurse, and photographer — a daughter of the diaspora raised in North Tulsa in the aftermath of the Greenwood Massacre. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and is the winner of the Southwest Everett Literary Award. Her work explores Black maternal legacy, migration, estrangement, embodiment, cultural memory, and survival. She can be found at www.thegaypasley.com.
