English @ SUNY Geneseo | Amina Diakite | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/aminad/activity/ Activity feed for Amina Diakite. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 45471d25f847775208e2f89c72ccfe66 Amina Diakite wrote a new blog post Butler Based Q&A in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15464/ Mon, 21 Dec 2020 07:22:03 -0500 How have you developed and deepened your habits of thinkING this semester? And how are you now moving on as an “independent life” free from the constraints of the Octavia Butler&Social Ties course?

At the […]

]]> 0 b70d83bea776f26ae049a1a6ebb7c274 Amina Diakite commented on the post, Habit is Key, on the site (Im)Possibilities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15420/ Wed, 21 Oct 2020 18:11:26 -0500 Thank you so much Yadelin! You are so right.

]]> 0 22f8d6142ab26205c01485545639f105 Amina Diakite wrote a new blog post Habit is Key in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15399/ Thu, 08 Oct 2020 03:07:34 -0500 Octavia Butlers’ words became an unwanted archangel on my shoulder who showed up abruptly reminding me of my duty to myself. Octavia Butler is an African American science fiction writer who is the subject of t […]

]]> 0 0ce45b10ebc3beb28f733514a5109b9b Amina Diakite joined the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13294/ Sun, 08 Sep 2019 14:42:41 -0500 0 1d377c86abfaf277e4368b9863d4ff48 Amina Diakite edited the blog post Strength in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12895/ Thu, 16 May 2019 20:55:46 -0500 In one of its definitions, a veil is a fabric used to conceal, cover, or hide the real nature of a form or figure. It is often transparent but its presence is undeniable. In the case of the social world when […]

]]> 0 f01b4d5b5d9485a44d34a9c1f09db5fd Amina Diakite wrote a new blog post Living Epistle in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12763/ Sun, 28 Apr 2019 03:21:22 -0500 There is no doubt to state that Steve Prince’s art has plenty and if not always, biblical symbolism. Steve Prince is an artist from New Orleans, Louisiana and a devout Catholic. He in many of his pieces i […]

]]> 0 3130def92d9f5153654e7548479cc94f Amina Diakite edited the blog post Prose for Africa in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12751/ Sun, 28 Apr 2019 02:13:42 -0500 It’s like they raped Africa.

And when I say “they,” I mean those who chose, and choose, because it’s both historically and futuristically, to take whatever resources Africa provided and provides without […]

]]> 0 4aa036f7275ff21096a642f1886073d7 Amina Diakite wrote a new blog post Who is Prince? in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12747/ Sun, 28 Apr 2019 02:04:49 -0500 Steve Prince is an educator, and artist, and a devoted Catholic who has made it his mission to spread this sense of remembrance to people and students across the world. His artworks are full of rhythm and […]

]]> 0 4c21dd49a8042de50854598ea0b60e09 Amina Diakite wrote a new blog post Splinters and the Cave in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12744/ Sun, 28 Apr 2019 01:56:18 -0500 Splinters by Amina Diakité

When the night splinters

Fractured by a sense of static

We open our eyes to a glimpse

Of warmth that touches our cheeks

To our chins

To see glass portray a picture […]

]]> 0 40661113a7f9a0d23fd4c9c8695272e4 Amina Diakite wrote a new blog post Prince's Urban Stations in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12739/ Sun, 28 Apr 2019 01:13:08 -0500 Steve Prince’s Urban Station is a contextualized narrative that tells a contemporary story of the Holy God and how he helps us to recognize when we need each other when someone may be down. In each station the s […]

]]> 0 e745bf14cf4dcc9f628a6df83fe04a2e Amina Diakite wrote a new blog post Space in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12736/ Sun, 28 Apr 2019 00:40:16 -0500 Spacial awareness is a skill I have not yet  mastered. Living in, Bronx, New York, in a neighborhood with people, who for the most part look like me, never led me to ask myself about how I took up space.

But […]

]]> 0 10ae36c997ab0cc4eac09b0b7f03c686 Amina Diakite wrote a new blog post What If in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12734/ Sun, 28 Apr 2019 00:38:26 -0500 What If by Amina Diakité

 

There is a man who’s worth, is less than another

And the only way to survive

Is to not.

There is an opposition

Growing, wheezing

Squeezing a vision identical t […]

]]> 0 b5e5c74c98c35fa749fd0aa6c5526647 Amina Diakite edited the blog post The Price in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12271/ Sun, 17 Feb 2019 14:44:00 -0500 A history permanently erased is not enough to question who I am, for who I am is more than my history. However, my history does play a role as to why I am here. And then there is the question to why am I here?  A […]

]]> 0 c3ec9e077f3e010ee9ea029508ef46e0 Amina Diakite joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12270/ Sun, 17 Feb 2019 06:08:03 -0500 0 a65ad769e1cb382e5cf859569b997eba Amina Diakite edited the blog post The Price in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12236/ Sun, 10 Feb 2019 04:57:33 -0500 A history permanently erased is not enough to question who I am, for who I am is more than my history. However my history does play a role as to why I am here. And then there is the question to why am I here?  A […]

]]> 0 310297d3a271113c9d5e124e60a7e12c Amina Diakite joined the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10598/ Mon, 10 Sep 2018 04:10:02 -0500 0 455b76aa482715192be581eb96369ce2 Amina Diakite became a registered member https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10518/ Tue, 04 Sep 2018 18:04:21 -0500 0