Title: The Bright Side
Description: Ro Maurer explores her answer to the question someone posed on Instagram: "How do you feel being a gay black woman?" Maurer responds--"I feel like others focus on the hardships and don't see my identity outside of oppression, and they can't see that tenderness and strength mixed within,"-- through the repeated references to nature and the land demonstrates the power of transformation which Maurer describes as a "powerful concept." --Grace Li
Subjects: Joy, Black Women, Black Lesbians, Minorities, Quarantine, Psychological aspects, COVID-19 (Disease), Popular works, Social aspects