Join us as we read and discuss black women poets who have inspired us to celebrate blackness and take joy and pride in the black experience’s legacy of resistance through celebration amid  oppression. By writing about the beauty of the black experience, we gain a greater understanding that this world didn’t give us joy and this world can’t steal our joy either. As we will dive into "Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou,  "Phenomenal Woman" by Maya Angelou, “Ego Tripping (there may be a reason why)” by Nikki Giovanni, and  won’t you celebrate with me by Lucille Clifton, we receive lessons that to be joyful is a radical act of resistance against oppression.