Confluence

Ava Marshall (BA '23) is an 18-year-old writer, actress, and activist from Houston, TX. She is the founder of Resist In Color (@resistncolor ), a mass-communication system surrounding advocacy actions for women of color. She is the host of Tales of A Weak Black Women The Podcast (@twbwpodcast ), where she tackles navigating the world as an insecure black girl. Ava is the Program Director of The Homegirl Project and a student at New York University. She started writing poetry from a childhood admiration of the beauty of language. She always loved how words told stories, which drew her to love literature, film, and television. Her obsession with Ntozake Shange's "for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf" and her reenacting of the scenes of Living Single, sprouted her artistic voice. She describes herself as a black girl trying to make sense of the world she has inherited. Her project, "It Echoes In My Bones: Black Women's Resistance to the Stethoscope", imagines a conversation between the black women abused and objectified for the sake of "progress" and black women within her life as they lean on each other, facing a medical institution that then and now, makes them vulnerable.