Serena, Kamala, and the Fear of the Outspoken Woman
Insecure men try to silence women all the time, but Serena Williams and Kamala Harris are sending a strong message by holding their ground.
Hope Wabuke
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Hope Wabuke is the author of the poetry collections 'The Leaving' and 'Movement No.1: Trains,' an assistant professor of English and Creative Writing at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and a contributing editor for the Root. She has won awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund for Women Writers, the New York Times Foundation. Her work has appeared in Guernica, the Guardian, the North American Review, Ms. Magazine online, and DAME, among others.
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