Asha French
Bio:
Asha L. French is a writer living in Louisville, Kentucky. She earned her Ph.D. in English at Emory University, and has published widely on race and gender. She is a mother of one, a member of the Affrilachian Poets, and proud graduate of Howard University.
Black women in the U.S. are three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than are white women. The new documentary Aftershock tells the stories of some of those women, and how their families are channeling grief into action.
Writer Asha French adds some missing context to the journey to self-acceptance shown in the Netflix movie.
The new Marvel blockbuster imagines an Africana womanhood impervious to the effects of colonialism.