Aisha Zorelle Raison

Fear of an Enlightened Black Woman Aisha Zorelle Raison

Since stepping away from the microphone as a spoken word artist in 2015, Aisha Raison has spent much of her energy into the written word. Since the success of her last book Heroine Tracks (2015), she has learned that her expression on paper to women held value. In ths recent poetry book, she reaches into the depths of the souls of melanated women who have been loved, hurt and transformed, whether positive or negative. Fear of an Enlightened Black Woman is Aisha's story transformed into poetic form that reaches the masses, no matter the lack or gain of melanin. From poems like Need to her celebration of the Awkward Black Girl in Girls Like Me, she reaches the mass of the woman, whether quiet or those that scream out to the universe.