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Safa N. Plenty, educator and mental health counselor, hoping to pursue a doctorate in Theology with a focus in spiritual formation and peacemaking. She holds a Masters of Social Work from Columbia University and an undergraduate degree in interdisciplinary studies with a minor in Africana Studies. For the past two years, she has worked as a K-12 educational contractor and assistant counselor at a local community college. Her research interest include Sufism, Attachment to God, indigenous eschatology, particularly Native American and Somatic psychology. She is also interested in religious mysticism, mindfulness practice in Buddhism and the role of feminism and religion in cultivating a peacemaking capacity among young Muslim women. She is currently working to develop a faith based healthy relationships program for Mothers and daughters. She enjoys writing poetry, research, and contemplative practice in art and crafts in her free time.

• Honoring Our Mothers, Honoring Our Selves by Safa Plenty

  By Safa Plenty on October 17, 2014 • ( 6 )

  

      “The moon has always been the primary symbol for female energy; its cycle around the earth takes approximately twenty-nine days, the same amount of time as the average woman’s menstrual cycle. It is often felt that as the… Read More ›

• Exuberant Noise by Safa Plenty

  By Safa Plenty on September 6, 2014 • ( 8 )

  

   She is the firefly that lights up our nights, her cherubed face, and cheeky smile, laying siege on our living spaces. Her tiny form occupying, our basement steps, as she joyously serenaded us in an infantile song, spanglish laced with… Read More ›

• Enlivened Truth by Safa Plenty

  By Safa Plenty on July 1, 2014 • ( 8 )

  

    My joy is rebellion, and so is my passion, my excitement, and even my sexuality, but only here where truth is kept secret. Where joy exploding in my vocal cords and coursing through my limbs is silenced or censored looked… Read More ›

• Love Facing by Safa Plenty

  By Safa Plenty on June 6, 2014 • ( 10 )

  

  This piece titled, ‘Love Facing’ is a meditation on the intergenerational dynamics of family violence and our need to move beyond labels in order to understand the complexities of American violence. It begins with a narrative critic of spanking as a corrective… Read More ›

• Melding Consciousness by Safa Plenty

  By Safa Plenty on March 1, 2014 • ( 10 )

  

  We, becoming lost  in the chaotic whirlwind of existence, within its patterns and dimensions, between seven layers of separation, weaving us through  a multitude of realities.   We, puzzling at hairline fractures, arising from lapses of our consciousness, exposing our humanness agitating… Read More ›