How My Coloring Book Taught Me About Racism

Coloring book is a poem examining the simplicity of humanity made complicated by human constructs of race and racism. Within it Tiffany returns us back to when we were children and unafraid to embrace all colors without limitations. The poem invites us to reinvent our relationships with one another by returning to our childhood mindset. FB:Tiffany Bowden, Twitter: @creatiff2003, Instragram: @rootedgoddess, LInkedIn: Tiffany Bowden MA,PhD(ABD) Tiffany Bowden, MA, PhDc is a diversity specialist and a Cincinnati, Ohio native. Her poetry has often focused on transforming our conversation around race, gender and class and has helped to give voice to the experience of being a Black Woman in the United States. Her humanistic approach is challenging and uniting. She has been published in Black Enterprise, Academic journals, the InterActivist and more and helps to support other artists nationally as a ghost writer. She has performed her poetry in several venues across United States. She has also leveraged her technical writing ability to assist organizations compete for RFPs on diversity based projects. She conducts diversity training workshops and does speaking and performances to further the cultural conversation