The Writing Outlet

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The Writing Outlet is a space for all the times I put my thoughts into words. Some pieces are personal while some are scholarly. All pieces, however, are representative of my thoughts, feelings, and musings.

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Becoming a Creative | Goldsmiths Media Arts | Spring 2023

Whitney Grinnage

Apr 27, 2023
3 min

Becoming a Creative | Goldsmiths Media Arts | Spring 2023

What does it mean to create in a world where everyone is a creative? To create is to think, to dream, to imagine, and to build...

Whitney Grinnage

Dec 24, 2022
1 min

Black Spiritual Journey | Fall 22

For my Black Women, Spirituality, and Religion class, I was tasked with creating a digital storytelling project for my final. The result...

Black Hair, Spirituality, and Biopolitics

Whitney Grinnage

Dec 23, 2022
1 min

Black Hair, Spirituality, and Biopolitics

For my Fall 2022 Black Women, Spirituality, and Religion class, I chose to write on the impact of Black hair on spirituality for Black...

Blackness is Queer: Findings on Black Joy

Whitney Grinnage

Dec 23, 2022
1 min

Blackness is Queer: Findings on Black Joy

For my Fall 2022 final in Intro to Black Studies course, I interviewed two other Black college students about Black Joy. We discussed...

Whitney Grinnage

Oct 20, 2022
1 min

a part of grief

“it pains the ancestors when we forget” and they’ve been in enough pain before. ~~~~~~~~~~~ I think a lot about how what you miss most...

Whitney Grinnage

Oct 20, 2022
1 min

NMAAHC

things moved a lot slower down there it was somber, solemn, slower like I was wading through the ships they were on someone I know said...

Whitney Grinnage

Oct 20, 2022
1 min

ancestral painkiller

“it pains the ancestors when we forget” and they’ve been in enough pain before. which is why when I can picture them walking the street...

the weight of the world on our shoulders

Whitney Grinnage

Jul 25, 2022
1 min

the weight of the world on our shoulders

i’m starting to feel the weight of the world on my shoulders and i’d really like for it to stop but it won’t. i know it won’t. and i know...

Whitney Grinnage

Jul 25, 2022
4 min

The Importance of My History

I spent my summer 2022 as a Black Genealogy Intern at the Friends Historical Library at Swarthmore College. My job was to make...

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