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In addition to her daily efforts to educate, inspire, and guide حوإ¼½م½م’s students, professor of literature and women’s studies, Taiyon J. Coleman, MFA, PhD, is a published researcher, poet, and essayist on themes that include literature, equity, writing pedagogy, and intersectionality. Her recent projects include the essay, "" and a Mellon Foundation grant (written with colleagues) of $497,000 to develop anti-racist curriculum in the humanities at حوإ¼½م½م's over three years.
"Diversity is not the presence of brown and black bodies, it's the amount of power that's distributed to them. Plantations were full of diversity, but what about the power distribution?" said Coleman during in a 2017 Minnesota Public Radio appearance, where she has been a repeat guest speaker on Kerri Miller's Friday Roundtable segment. "Not to acknowledge that, I would argue, is an ability to not acknowledge intersectionality, or the different ways in which gender affects different people depending on their positionality of class and race, and I would argue that that's the problem we have today."
Taiyon is a Cave Canem and VONA fellow, and her writing includes ; ; ; Civility, which was awarded the ; ; ; ; ;â€&²ش²ْ²ُ±è;²¹²ش»ه&²ش²ْ²ُ±è;
Taiyon’s book, co-authored with colleagues, was published in 2019; she is an University of Minnesota Libraries' ; and her book collection of critical essays, , is forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press in June 2024.