A Multi-Modal Study of Exquisite Blackness: Krista Franklin’s Too Much Midnight
In Franklin’s telling, we are not just born, but fervent in our existence.
...moreIn Franklin’s telling, we are not just born, but fervent in our existence.
...moreRae presents America as seen through Black girls’ eyes, experienced by our bodies.
...moreKaitlyn Greenidge discusses her new novel, LIBERTIE.
...moreKiese Laymon discusses the revised HOW TO SLOWLY KILL YOURSELF AND OTHERS IN AMERICA.
...moreGeorgina Lawton discusses her debut memoir, RACELESS.
...moreDeesha Philyaw discusses her debut story collection, THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES.
...moreKelly Harris-DeBerry discusses her debut poetry collection, FREEDOM KNOWS MY NAME.
...moreAthena Dixon discusses her debut memoir-in-essays, THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING WOMAN.
...moreThis book is a marriage of the real world and the imagination, the nexus of nonfiction and fiction.
...moreRaven Leilani discusses her debut novel, LUSTER.
...moreTara Campbell discusses her new book, POLITICAL AF: A RAGE COLLECTION.
...moreHealing is slow. Fast. Slow again.
...moreIt’s never too late to read Toni Morrison for the first time.
...moreKwoya Fagin Maples discusses her poetry collection, MEND.
...moreWhen I was born I came out looking just like them.
...moreMorgan Parker discusses her newest collection, MAGICAL NEGRO.
...moreRenee Simms discusses her debut collection, Meet Behind Mars, leaving law to become a writer, and writing through major life changes.
...moreMorgan Jerkins discusses This Will Be My Undoing, getting her start on the Internet, and why her collection of linked personal essays isn’t just another Millennial read.
...moreOne thing I was taught about travel—because my father is a black man born in Alabama in 1950—was that there are safe places for black people to go and places that aren’t as safe.
...moreBrooke C. Obie discusses the historical basis for her debut novel, Book of Addis, writing to dismantle white supremacy, and why Black speculative fiction is integral to her survival.
...moreNikki Wallschlaeger discusses her new collection Crawlspace, why she chose to work with the sonnet form, and how segregation in American never ended.
...moreYona Harvey talks about her path to becoming a poet, Winnie Mandela as an artistic inspiration, and what it means to write more publicly.
...moreWelcome to This Week in Trumplandia. Check in with us every Thursday for a weekly roundup of the most pertinent content on our country, which is currently spiraling down a crappy toilet drain. You owe it to yourself, your communities, and your humanity to contribute whatever you can, even if it is just awareness of […]
...moreTara Betts discusses her newest collection, Break the Habit, the burden placed on black women artists to be both artist and activist, and why writing is rooted in identity.
...moreWith Lisa Factora-Borchers, Patrice Gopo, Jennifer Niesslein, Tamiko Nimura, and Deesha Philyaw.
...moreAlicia Swiz reviews Gotta Go Gotta Flow by Patricia Smith and Michael Abramson.
...moreOver at The Offing, Linda Chavers pens an important letter to “black girls everywhere”: I am giving you the prologue. You must go forward accepting and understanding that no one will ever do it as well as you do, and no one will ever tell you that you do it better than anybody else.
...moreIn the American imagination the black woman, whether light skinned or dark, is already a sexualized entity, a character upon which so many stereotypes are projected. But as a black woman writing these characters, I need to write beyond the stereotypes, expose their idiocy one page at a time. Morgan Jerkins writes about the complications […]
...moreWhy do black characters, in particular, black women of color, have to have some curated, Huxtable-like experience? Why can’t black women, like every other human on earth, be sexual, nerdy, outrageous, or flawed? Why aren’t we allowed to share our stories of affairs, unrequited love, career failures and sexual diversity on camera? For Blavity, Kayla […]
...moreJosie Pickens talks about building relationships through blogging, changing the narrative around black women in America, and eradicating silence through storytelling.
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