WCDH Interviews A ‘Ja Lyons about Survival

A ’Ja Lyons—writer, historian, poet, actress, and currently a Creative Nonfiction PhD student at Oklahoma State University—discusses her second book (to be taken from her dissertation), working title “House: A Memoir of a Home Built by Fragments.”

“House” is a personal narrative about surviving incest and childhood sexual abuse that also includes the history of slave plantation homes as dens for raping enslaved Black women and how such dynamics persist for African-American women, particularly in the home.