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La Belle Vie Writing Program

My GREATEST magic and manifestation for La Belle Vie Academy was to launch La Belle Vie Writing Program in 2020!!! I have so much love and respect for this fabulous predominantly Black and Women of Color writing community! It has been INSPIRING to witness all of the amazing achievements with writing, publishing, application submissions, paradigm shifts, energetic shifts, learning to take care of ourselves, doing deep spiritual work, ALL THE THINGS!!!! It is an honor and pleasure to present our collective cv (below) highlighting some of our many publication and fellowship accomplishments since 2020! ~ Kathryn Sophia Belle, Ph.D

LBV Writing Program, ANNUAL @$520/year (12 months, consecutive beginning with month of sign-up)
LBV Writing Program, MONTHLY @$50/month (A la carte @$50/month)

Sample Feedback about La Belle Vie Writing Program:
  • This group has changed my relationship to writing!
  • This is the most positive relationship I have ever had to my writing!
  • This group has given me more confidence in my writing and that has also extended to other areas of my life.
  • This is the most consistent I have ever been in my writing.
  • I usually do not try to keep writing when I teach, but this group has allowed me to continue to write and make significant progress on projects in addition to my teaching.
  • I broke up with my other writing groups because it does not give me everything that this writing group offers.


LBVWP Collective
curriculum vitae

(SELECT LBVWP MEMBER PUBLICATIONS & FELLOWSHIPS)
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BOOKS

Kathryn Sophia Belle, Ph.D.
  • Beauvoir and Belle: A Black Feminist Critique of The Second Sex. (Forthcoming, Oxford University Press, 2023)
 
Jasmine Nicole Cobb, Ph.D.
  • New Growth: The Art and Texture of Black Hair (Duke University Press, 2022)
 
Charity C. Elder
  • Power: The Rise of Black Women in America—How Black Women Embody the American Dream, Defy Oppression, and Win (Simon and Schuster, 2022).

Myrriah Gómez, Ph.D.
  • Nuclear Nuevo México: Colonialism and the Effects of the Nuclear Industrial Complex on Nuevomexicanos (University of Arizona Press, 2022)
 
Natasha Gordon-Chipembere, Ph.D.
  • Finding La Negrita (Jaded Ibi Press, 2022)

Ruthanne Soohee Crapo Kim, Ph.D.
  • Horizons of Difference: Rethinking Space, Place, and Identity with Irigaray, Eds. Kim, Ruthanne Crapo, Russell, Yvette, and Brenda Sharp (SUNY Press, 2022)
  • Time to Manifest: The Submarine Philosophy of Édouard Glissant. University of Virginia Press (Under review, 2022)
 
JOURNAL ARTICLES 

Wesley N. Barker, Ph.D.
  • “Thresholds of Touch: Revisiting the Mat(t)er of the Body in the Work of Luce Irigaray.” Journal of Body and Religion Vol. 4., No. 1 (2020)

Kathryn Sophia Belle, Ph.D.
  • “Interlocking, Intersecting, and Intermeshing: Critical Engagements with Black and Latina Feminist Paradigms of Identity and Oppression” in Critical Philosophy of Race, Vol. 8, Nos 1-2, pages 165-198. (2020)

N. Fadeke Castor, Ph.D.
  • Ifá/Orisha Digital Counterpublics. The Black Scholar 52(3): 17–29 (special issue “Black Religions in the Digital Age” edited by Margarita Guillory) (2022)
  • Subjectivity: Offerings from African Diasporic Religious Ethnography. Fieldwork in Religion 17(1): 72–83 (special issue “Critical Terms for the Ethnography of Religion” edited by Brendan Jamal Thornton and Eric Hoenes) (2022)
  • Our Commitments to Those Who Have Come Before: Reflections on an African Diasporic Spiritual Citizenship. Tarka 6: 24-30 (special issue “On Spiritual Citizenship” edited by Stephanie Corigliano, 2022)

Naomi Greyser, Ph.D.
  • “Un/Blocked: Writing, Race and Gender in the American Academy” American Quarterly (forthcoming)

Ruthanne Soohee Crapo Kim, Ph.D.
  • “Creolizing Place, Origin, and Relation: The Opaque Waters between Glissant and Irigaray.” Hypatia (2022)
  • “Disidentification in Irigaray and Anzaldúa: Nepantla and Sexuate Politics,” Sophia, special issue (2022)
  • “Creolizing an Ethics of Ambiguity: Opacity and the Veil.” The CLR James Journal. (2022)
  • “Kinning and Kincraft: a Feminist, Decolonial Analysis of Kinship.” Philosophy Compass. (forthcoming 2023)
  • “Returning to the Point of Entanglement: Sexual Difference and Creolization,” Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy (2021)
 
BOOK CHAPTERS

Wesley N. Barker, Ph.D.
  • “An Ethic of Lips: Beyond the Wounding of Desire” in Ruthanne Crapo Kim, Yvette Russell, and Brenda Sharp, eds. Horizons of Difference: Rethinking Space, Place and Identity with Irigaray (SUNY 2022)
 
Kathryn Sophia Belle, Ph.D.
  • “‘Being Together Was Like Medicine’: Reflections on the Power and Pleasure of Black Women Writing Groups” for Tengo Sed: Thirsty for Global Works on Voice, Identity, and Personhood, edited by Natasha Gordon-Chipembere and Yndia Lorick-Wilmot (Accepted 2021)
  • “Maria Stewart (August 20, 1829 – August 19, 1834)” in 400 Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019, edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain (Random House, 2021)

Ruthanne Soohee Crapo Kim, Ph.D.
  • “Life itself and Sexual Difference: Nature and Culture.” In What is Sexual Difference: Thinking with Irigaray, edited by Mary C. Rawlinson and James Sares. New York: Columbia University Press (In Press 2023)
  • “Artificial Life, Biomimcry, and Autopoiesis: Irigaray with Ecological Feminism and Deep Ecology.” Horizons of Difference: Rethinking Space, Place, and Identity with Irigaray, edited by Ruthanne Crapo Kim, Yvette Russell, and Brenda Sharp. Albany, NY: SUNY Press (2022)
 
FELLOWSHIPS

Nathifa Greene, Ph.D.
  • Weeksville Heritage Center Freedom Fellow (2021)

​Ruthanne Soohee Crapo Kim, Ph.D.
  • Mellon Just Transformations Postdoctoral Fellow. Department of Philosophy, The Pennsylvania State University (2021 – 2022)
  • Fulbright Scholar Award Alternate. “Thinking Like an Island: Social Data on Religious Diversity and Gender Equality in Mauritius to Increase Renewable Energy” (2021)
 
INTERVIEWS

Kathryn Sophia Belle, Ph.D.
  • Interview by Edward O’Byrn, “Simone de Beauvoir, Analogy, Intersectionality, and Expanding Philosophy: An Interview with Kathryn Sophia Belle by Edward O’Byrn” in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (forthcoming)
  • Interview by Edward O’Byrn, “Anti-Racism and Existential Philosophy: An Interview with Kathryn Sophia Belle by Edward O’Byrn” in Sartre Studies International (Volume 27, Issue 2, Winter 2021, pages 1-9)
  • Interview by A. Shaid Stover, Editor for Brotherwise Dispatch: Interviews, and Exclusives (Theory, Critique, Aesthetics), “The Brotherwise Dispatch vs. Kathryn Sophia Belle” [Interview on Hannah Arendt and the Negro Question](Available online: https://brotherwiseinterviewsexclusives.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-brotherwise-dispatch-vs-kathryn.html?m=1) (2021)
  • Interview by Roberto Sirvent, Editor for Black Agenda Report, BAR Book Forum, “Kathryn Sophia Belle’s Hannah Arendt and the Negro Question” (Available online: https://www.blackagendareport.com/bar-book-forum-kathryn-sophia-belles-hannah-arendt-and-negro-question) (2021)

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