Mariam Williams is a writer, arts educator, and public historian living in Philadelphia, raised in Kentucky. She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing and certificate in public history from Rutgers University-Camden and is also a proud VONA alumna. See more of her work at MariamWilliams.com or follow her on Twitter: @missmariamw.
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Does love have its limits?
I believe our capacity to love expands not with colorblindness or neutrality about another person's gender representation, but with our capacity to listen.
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Identities can be lost in our rigid rituals
At the Intersection: I've spent the past several weeks (and will spend the next several) marketing the online courses I've developing and feeling gross and conflicted about it.
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Like Mary, some youth today don't get to be children
At the Intersection: Mary's position at the Annunciation struck me as unfair. She was poor, a teenager and a girl, all together a social position lacking any privilege or authority.
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Holding on to hope when you're not sure things will get better
I expected to be in a position to take care of my parents by now in part because I believe in a system of rewards for good behavior and consequences for bad. It's a fictional system, but faith in God and God's promises also nurtured it.
