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With Emotional Justice, Esther A. Armah is building a global body of work. Part of the body is her written pieces, features and essays. Esther is crafting a vocabulary that spans the connected extended family of global Black people. Esther is crafting language to communicate the myriad ways the chaos of colliding traumas due to a history of injustice and brutality manifest in contemporary lives.
Esther’s work is to craft language to explore these collisions and enable the creation of a process of healing by global Black peoples. This growing body of writing now spans 10 years.
It has appeared in global publications in the US, London and Ghana. Those publications include:-
US: AlterNet, Essence.com, Ebony.com, Gawker, Salon.com, Global Grind, Gawker Review, The Root
Ghana: B&FT
London: The Guardian
Esther’s essays on Emotional Justice have been published in the following books:-‘ CHARLESTON SYLLABUS: Readings on Race, Racism and Racial Violence’ Edited by Dr Chad Williams, Dr Kidada Williams and Dr Keisha Blain and BLACK COOL edited by Rebecca Walker.
Esther has a body of work that spancs 10 years’ the following:-
Esther Armah has an EMOTIONAL JUSTICE column. This series of writings is being published in WARSCAPES.
From I Can’t Grieve to I Can’t Breathe: Black Grief Matters – July 2019
http://www.warscapes.com/column/esther-armah/i-can-t-breathe-i-can-t-grieve-black-grief-matters
Haunted & Hunted: Emotional Justice for #TheExoneratedFive – March 2019
http://www.warscapes.com/column/esther-armah/haunted-and-hunted-emotional-justice-theexonerated5
Jay Z 4:44 Intimate Reckoning
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jay-z-444-intimate-reckoning_us_5a38ebdee4b0c12e6337b097
What Black women want and need
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/03/emotional-justice-what-black-women-want-and-need
‘Birthdays. Legacies, Love, Leadership:
Letter to Winnie Mandela – Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/esther-armah/letter-to-winnie-mandela_b_1684393.html
The Missionary’s Position – Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/esther-armah/the-missionarys-position_b_4417227.html
On Boston & Violence – an Intimate Relationship – Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/esther-armah/on-boston-violence_b_3096145.html
Black Bodies, White Terrorism – A Global ReImagining of Forgiveness
http://gawker.com/black-bodies-white-terrorism-a-global-reimagining-of-1715637306
SELMA: The Beautiful, Complicated, Connected Histories of Global Black Folk – Gawker
http://review.gawker.com/the-beautiful-complicated-connected-histories-of-blac-1679342925
theSWAGspot: Intimate Public Space to Talk Love, Lessons and Legacy With Men for Men
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/esther-armah/theswagspot-intimate-publ_b_3399877.html
The Other National Conversation? White Privilege
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/esther-armah/the-other-national-conver_1_b_3660742.html
Lil Kim: Diary of a Mirror
http://www.ebony.com/wellness-empowerment/essay-lil-kim-diary-of-a-mirror
https://www.theroot.com/lil-kim-and-our-relationship-with-beauty-1790892818
Lupita: Black Beauty’s Intimate Revolution
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/esther-armah/lupita-back-beautys-intim_b_4979518.html
Emotional Justice: On ‘Perfect’ Victims and ‘Ideal’ Predators
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/esther-armah/emotional-justice-on-perf_2_b_3968774.html
Esther’s essays on Emotional Justice have been published in the following books:-‘ CHARLESTON SYLLABUS: Readings on Race, Racism and Racial Violence’ Edited by Dr Chad Williams, Dr Kidada Williams and Dr Keisha Blain and BLACK COOL edited by Rebecca Walker.
