The Story Temple
High Priestess LakeishaYou were taught to write for the white gaze. To shrink the story. The Story Temple exists to undo that. A spiritual writing sanctuary for Black writers.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 102 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 4 days ago |
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The empty chair
I got the white gaze off my shoulder, and then I couldn’t write.
For years I worked to get free of it. I named it in writing workshops. I pointed it out for my clients. I got really good at pattern recognition and catching the small betray...
When the work gets murky, the inner editor gets loud
There is a sentence in your draft you’ve rewritten four times in the last 48 hours. Each version is tidier than the one before it, and each one has a little less life in it. You haven’t written anything new in an hour. You’ve been sanding t...
The edit below the edit
Two magazine issues landed on my desk within weeks of each other this last quarter. One was the summer issue of a Black health magazine, built entirely around a multiple myeloma diagnosis: staging, treatment, genetics, spirituality, and the...
Come write with me this summer
Summer doesn’t ask permission before it changes how you write. The schedule loosens. The light stays out longer than your attention does. Some of you will use the extra hours. Most of you will watch them disappear into everything exc...
Everything’s coming through water now
You notice it before you have words for it. The sentences you were writing a few days ago, the ones that were moving, start arriving in pieces. They aren’t gone. Just scrambled. The word you meant shows up three words late. The paragraph yo...
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I help Black writers go all the way into the story they’re already trying to tell, without the white gaze deciding how far is far enough. Àṣẹ \ud80c\udc80✧⟡
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