Elyria, Ohio. Collage illustration: Renald Louissaint; Photography: Rikki Wright.

Rust: A Black Woman’s Story of Growing Up in Northeast Ohio

Black women I know from home have stories that often go unnoticed and untold

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ZORA

7 min readOct 29, 2019

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Tara L. Conley

Written by Tara L. Conley

Writer for

ZORA

Professor. Founder @HashtagFeminism. Mom to a pug named Gary. @taralconley on Twitter. taralconley.org.

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