Author: D_Siuba
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Ms. Klein’s blues eyes subtly quivered behind her glasses. She was reading the redlined pages of my story as I tried to read her mind.
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Below is a recording of my presentation, “Resonance and Revelation: Exploring the Human Voice as an Agent of Creativity, Healing, and Liberation,” which was presented this summer at the London Arts-Based Research Centre. In my talk, I discusses my creative process, musical and artistic development, psychological growth, somatic symptoms, and mythology, all with an emphasis…
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In my last year of college, I took a creative writing course called, “Writer as the Outsider.” I only remember one assignment: we had to write a short piece about our life, kind of like a micro-memoir. I wrote a story about a child whose mother shapeshifts into a distorted, grotesque version of herself every…
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For years, I’ve wondered why I crave creative validation. Of course, writers write to be read, and musicians play to be heard, but shouldn’t I be creating for the joy and the love of it? Shouldn’t I be sharing my work without expectation? Ideally, yes, but more often than not, I’ve felt like an emotional…