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For over a decade, Wanda's work has spanned across higher education, local and state agencies and nonprofits where she facilitates training and workshops to streamline practices for anti-oppressive trauma-informed staff and survivor support. When she isn’t engaging in the work of this nonprofit, Wanda serves as Founder and CEO of Start By Talking, an anti-oppression education company that helps leaders and orgs map their Oppressive Muscle Memory to dismantle White Supremacy and anti-Blackness. Wanda is an double-alumna of Mississippi State University where she received her Bachelors of Arts in Broadcast Communication with a minor in Theatre and a Master’s of Arts in English with a minor in Gender Studies. 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"Black pleasure, black joy: An introduction." Drake, Simone. The Marketability of Black Joy: After “I Do” in Black Romance Film Holmes, Barbara. Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practices of the Black Church. Johnson, Javon. Black Joy in the time of Ferguson. Lené, Quenna. Setting the Stage for Black Choice: Theatre of the Oppressed as Container for Resistance, Black Joy Lu, Jessica and Steele, Catherine. ‘Joy is resistance’: cross-platform resilience and (re)invention of Black oral culture online Steele, Catherine, and Lu, Jessica. "Defying death: Black joy as resistance online." In A networked self and birth, life, death. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4812d0647539551e133044/1594454023678-5ASTF4WNT8BOZQ8VOYXR/woman-holding-a-sign-in-protest-4613880.jpg Digital Library - Black Resistance Allen, Shaonta. “Colin Kaepernick, Black Resistance & Institutionalized Racism in the NFL.” Barlow, Jameta. #WhenIFellInLoveWithMyself: Disrupting the Gaze and Loving Our Black Womanist Self As an Act of Political Warfare Battle, Nishaun. Black Girlhood, Punishment, and Resistance: Reimagining Justice for Black Girls in Virginia. Buggs, Shantel. Rejecting white distraction: a critique of the white logic and white methods in academic publishing Burrowes, Nicole. “Building the World We Want to See: Sista II Sista and the Struggle Against State and Interpersonal Violence.” Davis, Angela. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement Davis, Shardé. Taking back the power: An analysis of Black women’s communicative resistance. Green, Kai, Taylor, Je Naé, Williams, Pascale Ifé, and Christopher Roberts. #BlackHealingMatters in the Time of #BlackLivesMatter Harvey Wingfield, Adia. “’Reclaiming Our Time’: Black Women, Resistance, and Rising Inequality.” Joseph, Ralina. Postracial Resistance: Black Women, Media, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity. Kerrison, Erin, Cobbina, Jennifer, and Bender, Kimberly. “Your Pants Won’t Save You”: Why Black Youth Challenge Race-Based Police Surveillance and the Demands of Black Respectability Politics McCurn, Alexis. “I Am Not a Prostitute’: How Young Black Women Challenge Street-based Micro-interactional Assaults.” McCurn, Alexis. “‘Keeping It Fresh’: How Young Black Women Negotiate Self-Representation and Controlling Images in Urban Space.” McMillam Cottom, Tressie. Thick and Other Essays. Ransby, Barbara. Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century Robnett, Belinda. How Long? How Long?: African American Women in the Struggle for Civil Rights Smith Foster, Frances and Guy-Sheftall, Beverly. Still Brave: The Evolution of Black Women's Studies Springer, Kimberly. Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968–1980 Steele, Catherine. “Signifyin’ bitching and blogging: Black women and resistance discourse online,” In The Intersectional Internet: Race, Sex, Class and Culture Online Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta. How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective. Whitaker, Manya and Grollman, Eric Anthony. Counternarratives from Women of Color Academics: Bravery, Vulnerability, and Resistance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4812d0647539551e133044/1594453150999-7W2LU200RI9VMB03KA8T/crowd-of-protesters-holding-signs-4613919.jpg Digital Library - Institutional Racism Alexander, Michelle. 2013 Talk on the New Jim Crow. 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Microaggressions and Modern Racism: Endurance and Evolution Love, Bettina. We Want To Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom Melaku, Tsedale. You Don't Look Like a Lawyer: Black Women and Systemic Gendered Racism Morris, Monique. Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools Roberts, Dorothy. Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century Sewell, Alyasah (formerly Abigail A.). “The Impact of Workplace Isolation, Occupational Stress, and Negative Stereotypes on the Experience and Expression of Anger among Black Workers.” Tatum, Beverly Daniel. Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? Williams, Apryl, Bryant, Zaida, and Carvell, Christopher. Uncompensated emotional labor, racial battle fatigue, and (in)civility in digital spaces https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4812d0647539551e133044/1594453920498-GNIEKBAM7JX53K7L32QM/tolu-bamwo-nappy-+%281%29.jpg Digital Library - Restorative Justice Davis, Fania. 2016. Interrupting the School to Prison Pipeline Through Restorative Justice. Davis, Fania. The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice: Black Lives, Healing, and US Social Transformation Ginwright, Shawn. Black Youth Rising: Activism and Radical Healing in Urban America. Ginwright, Shawn. Radically Healing Black Lives: A Love Note to Justice Hampton, Robert L, LaTaillade, Jaslean, Dacey, Alicia, and Marghi J.R. Evaluating Domestic Violence Interventions for Black Women Opie, Tina and Roberts, Laura Morgan. Do black lives really matter in the workplace? 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Living at the intersection: The effects of racism and sexism on Black rape survivors James, Adilia. “The Black Girl Body as a Site of Sexual Terrorism.” Wish to Live: The Hip-Hop Feminist Pedagogy Reader West, Carolyn. “Still on the auction block: The (s)exploitation of Black adolescent girls in rap(e) music and hip hop culture” In The sexualization of childhood https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4812d0647539551e133044/1594454785707-X20S5Q9AZE87PV7Q1WRJ/photo-of-man-with-hand-on-his-head-in-the-dark-1820689.jpg Digital Library - Trauma Aymer, Samuel. “I can’t breathe”: A case study—Helping Black men cope with race-related trauma stemming from police killing and brutality Barlow, Jameta. Restoring optimal black mental health and reversing intergenerational trauma in an era of Black Lives Matter Jenkins, Esther. Black Women and Community Violence: Trauma, Grief, and Coping Jernigan, Maryam and Henderson Daniel, Jessica. Racial Trauma in the Lives of Black Children and Adolescents: Challenges and Clinical Implications Motley, Robert and Banks, Andrae. Black Males, Trauma, and Mental Health Service Use: A Systematic Review Rich, John and Courtney Grey. Pathways to Recurrent Trauma Among Young Black Men: Traumatic Stress, Substance Use, and the “Code of the Street” Rich, John. Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Trauma and Violence in the Lives of Young Black Men West, Carolyn. “Living in a web of trauma: An ecological examination of violence among African Americans.” The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook on the Psychology of Violence https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4812d0647539551e133044/1594455352395-3UI62YR61T3AQPGM0NGJ/people-protesting-and-holding-signs-4614160.jpg Digital Library - Violence Crewnshaw, Kimberlé, Ritchie, Andrea, and Anspach, Rachel. Say Her Name: Resisting Police Brutality Against Black Women. Jones, Nikki. 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Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty West, Carolyn. “Hidden in Plain Sight: Structural Inequalities and (In)visible Violence in the Lives of African American Women” in Talking about Structural Inequalities in Everyday Life: New Politics of Race in Groups, Organizations, and Social Systems. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4812d0647539551e133044/1594490265601-BDSKMAAY3L6H988QIVFP/gold+womyn.jpg Digital Library - Bilphena Yahwon The Womanist Reader https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4812d0647539551e133044/1594491516693-WBWBFO20JBO8AM4OS8MO/Charles+small.jpeg Digital Library - Charles A. 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