Student wins Phi Beta Kappa award for undergraduate writing

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Junior Safyque xRichardson, a double major in creative writing and psychology, won the 2022 John D. Wilson Prize for her essay “Reduction to the Black Body: Brutality in The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.” Photo by Christina Franusich for Virginia Tech. As an aspiring television writer, Safyque xRichardson is obsessed with story in all forms: novels, anime, comics, Netflix shows. So the junior double-majoring in creative writing and psychology couldn’t help but notice that stories about Black people’s lives often followed a different narrative arc, one centered on suffering and violence. “We literally determine who’s Black and who’s not by who is in pain and who’s not,” she said. “But if you categorize us by our pain, then that’s the only thing that’s going to make us who we are.” A moment of brutality against an enslaved woman in “The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass” […]

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