I Said What I Said!... And This is Why.

As a quiet girl growing up in an urban setting, you learn to sit back and observe. You listen to the sounds of the city and its people, hearing a multitude of varying opinions and arguments on different topics. As the quiet girl, I have always struggled to make my own opinions known. I have never been loud and I have never been a much of a trailblazer. I learned to have my opinions and keep them to myself. Then I was introduced to English as an academic subject. Pursuing my English degrees, I was endowed with the ability to write out my positioning on topics that I was and remain passionate about and support my claims with research that was both relevant and current in today's social climax. I've written papers on subjects varying from butch lesbians and their disruption of inter-gender hierarchies to the role of queer mixed race women within historical periods of renaissance. Though these papers have been widely accepted within academic realms, I wanted an outlet that was accessible to minds beyond academia. 

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I created "I Said What I Said" to be a place of opinionated release. Something informal. I want to do exactly what studying English has taught me to do in a more relatable fashion. Intelligently provoke a thought, start a conversation and hopefully inspire an audience to form and pursue opinions of their own. This is a place of creativity. I want to highlight the writing I hold closest to me and also highlight the writing of others who may or may not feel the same way. This is a place of learning. When reading the work of someone else, you may find that your views may change and THAT IS OKAY! I pride myself in asking the opinions of others on topics that people tend to shy away from. Don't shy away. Talk about it. Learn about it. Be about it. And remember to always assert "I SAID WHAT I SAID."