Discretion: Hazing. Pledging. Intake.

Description

“We are non-hazing organizations” is a popular phrase commonly used by Black and culturally based fraternities and sororities. While this may be true, fraternal organizations have a history of dealing with hazing that has been dark, dangerous, and sometimes deadly.

Two things can be true at the same time.

DISCRETION: Hazing. Pledging. Intake. offers a unique take on hazing by beautifully blending culturally rich fiction, non-fiction and self-help using the African tradition of storytelling, and integrates powerful hazing “myth busters’” debunking nine myths often associated with new member processes in Black and culturally based organizations — myths that often serve to perpetuate and substantiate a dysfunctional, destructive, dangerous, and sometimes deadly, underground hazing culture.

We take you on a journey with Imani, a fictional college student whom we begin observing right before she completes her new member journey into her sorority. From her new member presentation, to her first road trip to “nationals”, to her involvement with the next group of “new girls”, the reader is given exclusive access into her decision-making process and how the actions she chooses ripple throughout her chapter, school, sorority, and ultimately her own life.

It is the author’s hope that by better understanding Imani’s choices you are empowered to make better choices — choices that manifest into purposeful actions that ultimately repair and save lives.