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Racial Violence/Equity as a Religion | Madison Petaway | TEDxUTAustin

What comes to mind when you hear the word “religion”? A place of worship? Peace? Through exploration of sociological concepts, Maddie Petaway challenges what we know about religion and creates a new theology centered on social justice. Madison Petaway is a performance poet from Houston, Texas, whose work grapples with the education system, mental illness, and the black experience. At 16, Maddie was named Houston’s 2020 Youth Poet Laureate and had her poem To Be a Black Girl published in New York Times the following year. McGraw Hill’s Digital Library “StudySync” would also publish the piece later that year. Moreover, Maddie is the founder and president of a poetry club at her university, entitled “Diction Addiction,” where she creates and teaches unique lessons weekly. Outside of school, she volunteers for two magazines as a poetry judge and teaches writing workshops to people of all ages! Alongside poetry, Maddie is a mental health advocate, volunteering as a crisis counselor with the nation’s Crisis Text Line and being an Interpersonal Violence Peer Supporter at the University of Texas-Austin. She hopes to publish a book bringing attention to mental illness in the black community and establish a school for Black, Indigenous, People of Color with literary talent. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx