New Years Revolution: Writing Toward the World We Deserve // with Tasjha Dixon

Start the year in the company of revolutionaries.

This 8-week course is an invitation to write your way into 2026 guided by the radical words of visionaries who changed the world.

Drawing from the speeches, letters, and poetic declarations of bell hooks, James Baldwin, Gloria Anzaldúa, Audre Lorde, Angela Davis, Malcolm X, Assata Shakur, and others, we’ll excavate our own voices as tools of resistance, healing, and renewal.

Each week, participants will engage with one revolutionary’s work and respond through journaling, poetry, and narrative writing that bridges the personal and the political. Sessions include creative prompts, reflection practices, and optional live Zoom circles for shared ritual and witness. This course is a sacred container for reclaiming our voice and rising into the new year with clarity, courage, and creativity.

All levels welcome. Whether you’re a seasoned writer or someone just finding your way back to the page, you belong here.

Week by Week

Week 1 - Begin Again - Meet your cohort and ground together in embodied presence and vision. We’ll explore our personal intentions for the new year using writing, breathwork, and the revolutionary wisdom of Angela Davis and Thích Nhất Hạnh. Expect meditative prompts, gentle warm-up writing, and a group intention-setting ritual.

Week 2 – The Personal is Political - Through the fierce and tender lens of Audre Lorde, we’ll examine the power of telling our stories. You’ll write from lived experience and begin to frame your identity as sacred testimony. Expect memory-based prompts, group reflection, and space to name what silence has cost you—and what your truth might set free.

Week 3 – Writing from the Margins - Using Gloria Anzaldúa’s “Borderlands,” we’ll explore the beauty and complexity of liminal identities. You’ll write bilingually or across dialects if desired, create collage journals, and experiment with hybrid poetic and narrative forms. This week is about voice multiplicity and homecoming to all parts of yourself.

Week 4 – Fire on the Page - This is our rage week. With the fire of Baldwin, Malcolm X, and June Jordan guiding us, we’ll explore anger as clarity and fuel. Expect bold monologues, stream-of-consciousness writing, and spoken word practice. We’ll learn to write with urgency, not apology.

Week 5 – Vision & Reimagination - Here we pivot toward dreaming. With the expansive brilliance of Octavia Butler and adrienne maree brown, we’ll explore speculative writing as a tool for imagining what does not yet exist. You’ll build new worlds, write to your future selves, and share utopian fragments.

Week 6 – Radical Self & Collective Care - Rest is revolutionary. We’ll use bell hooks and Tricia Hersey’s teachings to explore how care, boundaries, and rest shape our stories. This week includes slow writing, affirmations, and permission to pause. Expect practices that honor your nervous system and replenish your creativity.

Week 7 – Letters to the Future - In dialogue with Assata Shakur and Martin Luther King Jr., we’ll write letters that cross time and lineage. You’ll be invited to speak directly to ancestors, descendants, and movements you hold dear. This week calls on legacy, gratitude, and prophetic imagination.

Week 8 – Ceremony of Liberation - Our closing circle will honor the work we’ve done and the writers we’ve become. We’ll share final pieces, bless each other’s words, and create a communal liberation ritual. Participants will be invited to speak a vow for their writing life moving forward.

Who Should Take This Class

Writers, truth-tellers, cultural workers, educators, caregivers, activists, and anyone seeking renewal.

BIPOC participants, LGBTQIA+ folks, veterans, single parents, healers, and spiritual seekers are especially encouraged to join.

Whether you journal privately or share your work publicly, this space invites you to deepen your voice and vision in community.

If cost is a barrier, we offer scholarships based on income as well as some partial scholarships for people living with serious illness and/or disability or people of color. Please fill out this scholarship application form so that we can find the best way to make the class accessible to you.

Please note: Registration closes five (5) days before the class start date.

What students are saying about learning with Tasjha

“I left every session with clarity and courage. Tasjha’s classes are soul medicine.”

“She holds space like a sacred drum—steady, powerful, and honest.”

“Her work is healing, revolutionary, and deeply rooted in love.”

Format

This is a hybrid online class, hosted on the online teaching platform Wet Ink with additional sessions hosted on Zoom. 

The day before class begins, you will receive an email invitation from Wet Ink. There are no browser requirements, and Wet Ink is mobile-friendly. The Wet Ink platform allows students to log in on their own time to post comments and critiques directly to authors’ works. You can also view deadlines, track revisions, and watch video or listen to audio. At the end of the class, each student will receive an email that contains an archive of all their content and interactions. 

The facilitator will be in contact with Zoom session information. Zoom sessions will be recorded and made available only to the class.

About the Teacher

Tasjha Dixon is a trauma-informed writer, social worker, and Buddhist teacher whose work lives at the intersection of justice, embodiment, and storytelling. A disabled Army veteran, she is the founder of Empowering KC, where she offers writing workshops, yoga, and healing circles for communities in need. She’s an MFA candidate at Naropa University and teaches through a lens of anti-racism, feminism, and collective care.

Website: empoweringkcwithtasjha.com

Instagram: @tasjhadixon | Facebook: facebook.com/tasjhadixon