Gorman founded and ran the nonprofit organisation One Pen One Page, which focussed on a youth writing and leadership program. She's often said that social justice is integral to her writing, and that, in turn, her writing is oriented at social justice.
"Poetry exists as a unique tool that can interrogate and communicate issues of inequality and injustice in a manner that is inherently rebellious," Gorman told Mashable in 2017. "Poetry as an art form in itself cuts against the grain . . . Poetry, and art in general, is humankind's creative mechanism for social change. There's a reason tyrants fear the poet."