📚 In honor of Sinners being ridiculously good, have some book recs with Sinners/Southern Gothic vibes! 🪕🧛🏾♂️🎶
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📚 In honor of Sinners being ridiculously good, have some book recs with Sinners/Southern Gothic vibes! 🪕🧛🏾♂️🎶
📚 The UK Climate Fiction Prize finalists! 📚
🦁 Abi Daré, And So I Roar
🌌 Samantha Harvey, Orbital
⏳ Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time
🦌Roz Dineen, Briefly Very Beautiful
🦢 Téa Obreht, The Morningside
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SO MUCH has happened in my creative life over the past few weeks. Among them...
My short script, TO THE FAMILY OF VERLEAN BANKS is officially on its way to reality with 1019 Productions! 💜 I am both honored & hyped! 😎
Get ready for Black history, civil disobedience, good trouble, & family ties.
SO MUCH has happened in my creative life over the past few weeks. Among them...
My short script, TO THE FAMILY OF VERLEAN BANKS is officially on its way to reality with 1019 Productions! 💜 I am both honored & hyped! 😎
Black history, civil disobedience, and good trouble. Stay tuned!
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📚 Books you need physical copies of: Censorship and Language 📚
WARNING: "Free speech" & "censorship" are often used as right wing 🐶 whistles. Vet your sources!
📖 Encyclopedia of Censorship, Jonathan Green
🔥 Burn This Book, Toni Morrison
📺 Media Control, Noam Chomsky
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📖 Books for Women's History Month reading! Feminine Rage 🔥
💄 Grotesque, Natsuo Kirino
👠 Sula, Toni Morrison
🦊 Sacrificial Animals, Kailee Pederson
🔫 Man Hunt, Gretchen Felker-Martin
🍞 The Cursed Bread, Sophie Mackintosh
🍼 The School for Good Mothers, Jessamine Chan
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📖 Books for Women's History Month reading! Witchy Vibes 🧹
🌲 In The Pines, Mariah Stillbrook
🫒 Clytemnestra: A Novel, Costanza Casati
🖐🏾 Magic For Liars, Sarah Gailey
⚜️ Witches Steeped in Gold, Ciannon Smart
🌳 Forest of Souls, Lori M. Lee
🌿 Modern Divination, Isabel Agajanian
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Confession time, I didn't have the Libby app. 😭 But I got it earlier this week and the hype is warranted.
Libraries are kewl, kids!
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Are you worried about vaccines?
Read "The Doctor Who Fooled the World" by investigative reporter Brian Deer. It traces the history of the infamous (& debunked) "vaccines cause autism" paper & the lawsuits attached to it. It also esamines the monetary incentives of anti-vaccine rhetoric.
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Dante's Inferno is a fanfic, most of Charles Dickens' and Edgar Allan Poe's work was considered 'popcorn' reading, & Jane Eyre was viewed as a fluffy lady book not to be mentioned alongside 'real literature.'
Literary merit is made up. Today's "stupid genre books" are tomorrow's classics.
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📚 DNFing a Book 📚
If you find yourself thinking, "I'm going to DNF because...
- It's too dense
- I don't relate
- I don't get the cultural references
- it depicts a lived experience I'm uncomfortable with"
Consider sticking it out OR trying again later instead of DNFing entirely.
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"The price of culture is a Lie." 📚
On this day 157 years ago, Bl@ck writer and social commentator W.E.B Du Bois was born.
How book "The Souls of Black Folk" is a seminal work part memior, part anthropological study, and part sociological commentary on race in America.
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Friendly reminder that effective boycotts take time! They rely on people losing steam and becoming complacent and falling back into old habits out of routine or convenience.
If you want your boycott to work, it can't just be for a day or a week or a month. We're in it for the long haul.
"Why do you only rec 'diverse' books??" 📚
🚩 Black and Asian authors each make up only ~5% of published books
🚩The # of published Indigenous authors is dropping
🚩 Books by and about LGBT people make up over 50% of bans in the US
🚩 Disabled authors aren't even tallied in this conversation
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✅ Vote in small, local elections. These elections are ones where your vote actually has weight.
✅ Attend school board meetings &, if you can, VOTE for school board members.
✅ Support your local libraries and request banned books at their location.
📚 Actionable steps to fighting book bans:
✅ Follow & get pointers from the Unite Against Book Bans initiative from the American Library Association.
✅ Attend local town halls and bring this concern to your mayors and city counsel.
More below...
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As a "small blue dot in a red state" & ⚫ woman, I feel the need to address my liberal friends who love when bad things happen to 🟥 states as "karma:"
- 🟦 states aren't less r@cist. Most ⚫ people live in the South, & the 🟦 Northeast is also the best example of redlining & defacto s3gregation.
💊 I take psychiatric meds. It was not an easy or thoughtless decision, and took literal years.
This is why R0e v W@de was so important. It prioritized privacy between you and your doctor, and without that precedent we're going to be seeing more examples of RFK and Co trying to butt in.
📚 Books you need physical copies of: Actual Science 📚
🪵 The Forest Unseen, David George Haskell
🌌 Cosmos, Carl Sagan
⏳ The Illustrated Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking
🏙️ The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Elizabeth Kolbert
🦴 Notes From Deep Time, Helen Gordon
Valentine's Day is my yearly reminder that I am NOT a romance girl. 😂 BUT I do have some faves with romance in them...
🐦 This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
📼 Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
🏹 The Sculptor, Scott McCloud
💭 Memory Police, Yoko Ogawa
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📽️ Bl@ck History Month + Valentine's Day movie recs 💜
💌 Poetic Justice (1993)
🌬️ Waiting to Exhale (1995)
💍 The Best Man (1999)
🏀 Love & Basketball (2000)
💋 Brown Sugar (2002)
🗓️ The Weekend (2018)
❣️ Premature (2019)
👠 Sylvie’s Love (2020)
🧁 From Scratch (2022)
🥖 Rye Lane (2023)
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📚 For everyone still hyped up by the Kendrick Lamar performance and rap/hip hop as a socially conscious art form, this book is coming out in a few months! Keep your eyes out 👀
"Words for My Comrades: A Political History of Tupac Shakur"
👩🏾🏫 The decades-long devaluing of literature, humanities, and social sciences in primary and higher education and the current lack of media (and general) literacy is not a coincidence. It's also not an accident, but that's another post. 💅🏾
Moral of the story: Read books
Hey, artists and writers and musicians feeling weird about doing art with the current state of the world: Let Kendrick Lamar's half-time performance be your motivation that "doing art" and "speaking truth to power" are not mutually exclusive.
📽️ Bl@ck Hist0ry Month in film: Drama edition
🐑 K*ller of Sheep (1978)
🦢 Daughters of the Dust (1991)
👒 The Watermelon Woman (1996)
🥘 Soul Food (1997)
📒 Pariah (2011)
🐚 Moonlight (2016)
🎶 If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
👸🏾 Miss Juneteenth (2020)
👓 Rustin (2023)
🤲🏾 Nickel Boys (2024)
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My horror novel is DONE. 🤯 Cover: approved. Edits: finalized. Manuscript: copyrighted. Trenches: queried.
And (most amazingly) cut down to 85k from a 100k first draft thanks to some excellent editing help.
Time to sleep 😴
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🌸 Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, Audre Lorde
🏳️⚧️ Tr@nsgender History, Susan Stryker
🔴 Real Que3r America: LGBT Stories From Red States, Samantha Allen
📚 Books you need physical copies of: LGBT+ History 📚
👨🏾⚖️ From the Closet to the Courtroom, Michael Bronski & Carlos A. Ball
🪨 Stonewall, Martin Duberman
🏳️🌈 A Que3r History of the US, Michael Bronski
🏙️ The G@y Metropolis, Charles Kaiser
✊🏾 When We Rise, Cleve Jones
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I got one sentence for any publishing house thinking about releasing any kind of anti-open door romance click bait: Read 👏🏾 the 👏🏾 room 👏🏾
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