Meet Chantel Massey
Chantel Massey (she/her) is a poet, author, teaching artist, and anime lover based in Indiana. She is a 2020 Indiana Eugene and Marilyn Glick Author Awards Emerging Author finalist for her first collection of poetry, Bursting At The Seams (VK Press, 2018). Massey founded the UnLearn Arts which serves to inspire writers through a Black classic and contemporary arts-centered curriculum.
Massey's work advocates for human rights and social justice. She explores their depth with a confessional and emotional honesty through Blackness, womanhood, identity, memory, familial relationships, the process and act of giving up self- betrayal, and the riot of Black joy. Her work can be found featured in IndianapolisReview, Turnpike Magazine, and other online and print publications coming elsewhere.
IG: @_chantel.massey | WEBSITE: https://www.chantelmassey.com
Bursting at the Seams
Bursting at the Seams: A Collection of Poetry by Chantel Massey uses vivid and vibrant imagery as an ode to womanhood as a black woman. Massey inspires and moves in her poetry through storytelling to foster a language and dialogue about rape culture effects on family, fighting illness, gossip, sexuality, being in love, falling out of love, womanhood, identity, spirituality, religion, about blackness and what it means to be black and/or safe in America as woman of color. She explores the complexities of intersectionality through poetry and lessons learned from her own experience walking into womanhood as a Black woman.
Book Credits:
Author: Chantel Massey | Editor & Interior Design: Michael Baumann | Copyeditor: Randie Chapman | Cover Design: Rae Parker | Publisher: Shavonne Holton, VK Press
Black Sheep / Permission on Holy Ground
This video is a celebration of Black ancestry, womanhood (and the humanity of it), and joy It asks the viewer what does joy mean to you? And does community play a role In that for you and why?