Your
Writing StYLe...
​Cuz you gotta have style!

In this class,  you are designing and creating for an audience that goes beyond the teacher. Let's think about our writing and designing styles deliberately. 

Each of these essays below comes from a prominent online magazine/website and has been read widely. These links are meant as inspiration for style ideas and strategies for your own writing.

• "Hope and the Historian" by Ta-Nehisi Coates (this is about a book/video)
• "Iggy Azalea’s Post-Racial Mess: America’s Oldest Race Tale, Remixed" by Brittney Cooper
• "Forget Lena Dunham, Let’s Talk About Odell Beckham Jr., Who Is a Brilliant Troll" by Stephen Crockett
• "How Watching the Brilliant Black Women of Team USA Turned Me into a Reluctant Patriot" by Kimberly Foster
• "Straight Outta Compton and the Social Burdens of Hip-Hop" by Adrienne Green
• "Black Lives and Dark Matter: Calculating Possibility" by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
• "Straight Outta Rape Culture" by Sikivu Hutchinson
• "Bye, Erykah: Why I’m Not Here For Badu’s Body-Policing Tweets" by LaLa
• "Why Non-Binary Gamers Need Better Representation" by Latonya Pennington
• "What We Need To Remember When We Say #GayMediaSoWhite" by Latonya Pennington 
• "Raven-Symoné Doesn’t Like Black-Sounding Names? How Ironic" by Damon Young 

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Please Note: We'll update this list of fabulously-stylized-black-bloggers throughout the term of this website.  
​Feel free to send suggestions to carmen.kynard@tcu.edu.