Listening for a Change

DÉBORAH ALÉXIS {[email protected]} is a Florida native of Haitian descent who is currently completing her undergraduate degree in sociology with minors in French and Africana Studies. She loves to speak, write, and listen to music. Her passion is creating healthy discourses about race, gender, class, and sexuality all of which inform her approach to her fictive and non-fictive writing. She describes herself as a pessimist brimming with humanist hope and a community bonding agent. She would like to thank her professors, especially Dr. Jacob Rugh, for exposing her to the language to talk about her experiences, her friend Melodie for the eloquent quotes found in her speech, and Israel for helping her do the English translation of the poem justice. She is eternally grateful for the hands from her community that make her work possible.