Taboo: Te Journal of Culture and Education Volume 18 Issue 1 Breaking the Silence: Telling Our Stories as an Act of Resistance Article 1 September 2019 Breaking the Silence: Telling Our Stories as an Act of Resistance Dawn Hicks Tafari Winston-Salem State University, tafaridn@wssu.edu LaWanda M. Simpkins University of Mary Washington, wandamsimpkins@gmail.com Follow this and additional works at: htps://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/taboo Recommended Citation Hicks Tafari, D., & Simpkins, L. M. (2019). Breaking the Silence: Telling Our Stories as an Act of Resistance. Taboo: Te Journal of Culture and Education, 18 (1). Retrieved from htps://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/taboo/vol18/iss1/1