How do we as writers respond to what we’re living through and witnessing in a useful way? Rebecca Solnit says, “[s]tories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them.” In this class, we bring a decolonial mindset to the stories we carry and those we are crafting to share with others. We read models, such as Kiese Laymon and Arundhati Roy, and we help each other identify and develop our own liberatory narratives. To support our work, we meditate and share our experiences with other kinds of self-care; we freewrite; we give one another concrete, supportive feedback; and we experiment with different genres – from poems, speculative stories, and personal essays to citizen journalism and manifestos.