Black Labor and Identity: An Inprint Writing Workout

Black Labor and Identity: An Inprint Writing Workout

Labor in Black life is both ancestral and intuitive. Whether we are laboring at our art, laboring in the work of parenthood or growing up, or even laboring to provide for ourselves, there’s something in each task that connects us to the generations before us and towards a shared future. In this multigenerational creative writing workshop, writers will take inspiration from the work of artists Michael Bennett and Martellus Bennett to draw connections between art and daily labor practices. Led by award-winning poet Joshua Burton, attendees will collaboratively create pieces of poetry, prose, and illustrated stories while asking questions like what do we carry and lose from generation to generation, and how are our labor practices connected to our identities?