Chapter Three • Stage III • Emergence
JUNE — SPEAK
Freedom • Music • Caribbean Culture • Black Culture • Fathers • Healing
June carries some of the issue’s most direct conversations about freedom, survival, music, cultural voice, resilience, and healing. The chapter recognizes Caribbean-American Heritage Month and African American Music Appreciation Month in the United States, Juneteenth on June 19, and Father’s Day on June 21 in 2026.
Editorial lens: survival, liberation, trauma, voice, resilience, music, fathers, recovery, truth.
Butterfly Tattoo: When Skin Becomes Story
Body, memory, survival, and transformation meet where lived experience becomes visible language.
When the Black Butterfly Finds Her Wings
A literary reflection on escape, healing, darkness, growth, and the possibility of flight after struggle.
By Võ Thị Như Mai, Co-Editor
Featured Poetry • Editorial Reflection
The Water Poem: You Are Seen
Lavonnie McManus writes about identity, dignity, faith, incarceration, reentry, and the human need to be recognized beyond a number or record.
Poem by Lavonnie McManus • Reflection by Võ Thị Như Mai
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