Who Said I Was A Cookie

Author

Madison Ashley Hunter

Date

2024

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Fine Arts

Department

English

Committee Chair

Marcus Wicker

Committee Member

Emily Skaja

Committee Member

Ladrica Menson-Furr

Abstract

Who Said I Was A Cookie is a poetry collection filled to the brim with fear-stained journal entries, calling-my-mama-for-the-5th-time-today rants, prayers about finding home within myself, half completed checklists as soundtracks and the sting of their cry for wanting to be whole, and satirical and soul immersing questionnaires. Readers receive a golden ticket to the party where every version of myself finally meets one another and devises a plan to ignore the false flavors of Black womanhood that people have menacingly mixed for me to embody while also baking the version of myself I desire to be. This is a love letter to all the girlies that refuse to be another object of consumption and assumption, but a movement of their own kind of funny, dysfunction, hope, and immortality.

Comments

Data is provided by the student.

Library Comment

Dissertation or thesis originally submitted to ProQuest.

Notes

Open Access

Recommended Citation

Hunter, Madison Ashley, "Who Said I Was A Cookie" (2024). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 3506.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/etd/3506