Storytelling with Educational Poet Talia Mingey
Our guest this episode is a spoken word poet, educating people about the trauma of sexual assault. She’s a survivor. She’s a writer. She’s a performer. She’s an educator.
I love her bio on “Unwritten” - Talia Mingey is a writer through and through. Her first love will always be poetry. She competed on the 2018 National Poetry Slam team in Chicago. She writes for self expression and social justice and performed at the 2018 March To End Rape Culture. She also does freelancing work and has been published on Thought Catalog. Currently, she's ghostwriting a novel and writing for Unwritten. She's constantly overwhelmed by all this but happy to be paid to do what she loves.
“I would want to talk about love, if I had to tell my last story. Love is what got me through most of that [trauma]. I would want to write a love poem to everyone who’s meant something to me.” - Talia Mingey
Poetry with a Purpose
As a survivor of rape, Talia has faced trauma unimaginable to many. To others, her trauma is all-too-familiar. With either case Talia hopes to educate everyone she can about abuse and hope through her poetry. From writing to performing, Talia knows she can bring inspiration, empathy, hope and more to people around the word… while at the same time working through her own healing. Poetry with a purpose.
“The power behind poetry… it’s one of the best outlets to taking something ugly and making it beautiful. Poetry creates purpose out of any story.” - Talia Mingey on poetry with a purpose
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