These poems examines race, marriage, family, abortion, and social changes since 1954 when Godzilla, the horror movie, and the Supreme Court ruling on integration, Brown v. Bd. of Ed, Topeka, Ks., occurred. Like the movie monster that resurrects in movie after movie, systemic societal evils appear dormant while continuing to enormously impact daily lives.

This book of plays, rehearsal warmup exercises, audition monologues, and scene study utilizes a variety of languages--standard English, Ebonics, slang, cursing and code-switching. Written from 1986-2023, it includes one-act plays that have been produced, studied, and staged in theaters and venues throughout the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Area, LA, NYC, Winston-Salem, NC, and at many universities and colleges. For actors, drama students, and classrooms.

A pro-choice writer looks at abortion in four genres—poetry, fiction, testimony, and essays—beginning with her mother's Depression-era decision not to abort, and traces how shame, faith, and morality shape women's
choices to abort or carry to term. The book reveals the complexities that arise for black women, black activists,
and women in general.

California Fever Dream chronicles Juanita's 60 years in literature and activism. At San Francisco State University in the 1960s, Juanita joined fellow student protesters to revolutionize American higher education and create the nation’s first Black Studies department. She developed her crafts of fiction, poetry, and essays through an arduous path of workshops, countless rejections, and journal writing.