Sit-In by Arleta Little
“Two women in hijabs and abayas approach us. One of the women asks, ‘How long will this be going on?’ ‘It’s the community that’s doing this,’ Zenzele answers. ‘So, I guess, as long as the community keeps coming. This is all different people. There’s no one group organizing it.’ The draped women speak to one another in a language that sounds like the wind over the surface of water before they smile at us, nod, and walk on.”
Enjoy this audio recording of “Sit-In” by Arleta Little from Vol. 33:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here.
Arleta Little is a writer and culture worker. Her work has been published in We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World; Blues Vision: African American Writing From Minnesota; The Saint Paul Almanac; Black Literacy Matters; This was 2020; and more. Her essay, Life and Death in the North Star State, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Little serves as the Executive Director for the Loft Literary Center. She lives in Minneapolis, MN.
