Daily News | From living in motels to facing racism, Camden girls share stories in new book
At first, Gisselle Smith-Echevarria thought she would write about pollution, a safe topic, nothing personal.
“The girls embraced the project because it provided an outlet for their voices to be heard and released to the masses,” said Gaylene Gordon, the girls’ adviser and creative-writing instructor for the book project.publisher, Alberta Lampkins, issued a national call in 2020 seeking essays, poems, affirmations, and art submissions and received 10 from the girls from the Women of the Dream program in Camden. Six other submissions came from girls in North Carolina and New York.
Nine of the girls are seniors at Brimm, Creative Arts, LEAP Academy, and Penn Tech High schools. The remaining girl from Camden, Monae Clayton, graduated in 2021 from Brimm. “All of the girls you see here today have dreams from the time they were little girls — the dream of a life that wasn’t so hard,” Cato said. “We watched our parents and caregivers struggle under the weight of poverty, crime, addiction, food insecurity, and institutional racism.”
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