Black Girl Rise is a workshop space for Black girls and women that focuses on what it means to each individual to be a Black girl, the struggles and challenges as well as the beauty and power of being a Black girl, and how to express these feelings and emotions through spoken word. Based on Porsche’s poem “Black Girl”, this workshop will explore the complexity of Blackness and girl/womanhood and give attendees a safe space to express their emotions through art while building a community of sisters. Porsche Veu aka The Poetic Activist is an author, motivational speaker, facilitator and artist of many talents from Oakland. To learn more about Porsche, please visit her website The Poetic Activist . Please email Shelly, gomezs@sonoma.edu for more information.