Mission Statement:

Guided by political anger and black radical tradition, Taiwana’s mission is to empower queer, trans, and disabled youth voices, through both her writing and by facilitating storytelling skills for others.

Taiwana co-facilitating the End Youth Prisons MN Launch at Open Book, Minneapolis, 2022.

Taiwana co-facilitating the End Youth Prisons MN Launch at Open Book, Minneapolis, 2022.

Workshops & Residencies

Alternatives to the Youth Carceral System

An Intro to Abolition Thru Theory, Story, & Creative Writing

Applying Abolition

Contemporary Mythology

Fiction for Social Change

Humor & Literary Resistance

Life After Burnout: Lessons from Abolition & Social Movements

Classes

10th Grade English Language Arts (18 weeks)

Abolitionist Fiction (12 weeks)

Fiction for BIPOC Writers (2 weeks)

First Year Writing 1120: Composition and Research (15 weeks)

Intro to Creative Writing (9 weeks)

Intro to Fiction (18 weeks)

Intro to Poetry & Performance (12 weeks)

Speculative Fiction by Women (6 weeks)

Writing Radically Imaginative Futures (4 weeks)