Fear of an Enlightened Black Woman: Empowered Poetry For My Sistas - Paperback

by Aisha Zorelle Raison (Author)

Since stepping away from the microphone as a spoken word artist in 2015, Aisha Raison has spent much of her energy into the written word. Since the success of her last book Heroine Tracks (2015), she has learned that her expression on paper to women held value. In ths recent poetry book, she reaches into the depths of the souls of melanated women who have been loved, hurt and transformed, whether positive or negative. Fear of an Enlightened Black Woman is Aisha's story transformed into poetic form that reaches the masses, no matter the lack or gain of melanin. From poems like Need to her celebration of the Awkward Black Girl in Girls Like Me, she reaches the mass of the woman, whether quiet or those that scream out to the universe.

Author Biography

Aisha Raison is a Womanist poet, producer, publisher and speaker. Aisha has written and recorded poetry throughout the south since 1997, creating Afrodeesiack Press and working in radio. With her feminist image and words, she won and toured several southern poetry slams and readings and performs in coffee shops and college stages, retelling stories that influence and inspire those that have yet to have a voice. She is also a mother to a brilliant artist (Kai), on-air personality, filmmaker, activist, motivational speaker and domestic violence advocate in the city of Memphis.