I became a part of the conversation: Ayesha’s story!

I became a part of the conversation at NJCU. Even people I took free Praxis CORE workshops with were talking about my memoir or my story. The title of my story is Ayesha’s story: The SZ Memoirs. I remember taking Memoir Workshop with Edi Giunta back in the fall of 2014. I wrote memoirs of increasing length starting with a 350 word practice memoir. Now here I am with over 22,000 words and an ambitious goal of having 40,000 words which is somewhere around 120 pages by January 2018. I love writing memoirs. Women who write memoirs are crazy cool like the Paula Abdul song “Crazy Cool”. I just bought a copy of Angie Martinez’s memoir My Voice and I thought “oh how cool Angie wrote a memoir”. I found my voice again by writing memoirs in Edi Giunta’s Memoir classes (Workshop and Advanced Workshop) at NJCU. I lost my voice all those years ago walking home from the bus stop in my McCorristin High School uniform and green Columbia Sportswear jacket when a racist man in a car screamed “Nigger” at me way back in February of 1995 in Ewing, NJ just walking home from the bus.