![]() ![]() Feminist, fierce, personal and scholarly, Breathe elucidates the fear that comes with raising Black children in America, while also imagining Black futures firmly rooted in our pride and our history. Breathe: A Letter to My Sons by Imani PerryĪt a time when Black children’s lives are not valued, and when Black resilience and resistance are so necessary, Perry shares this love letter to her children and ours, encouraging them toward freedom and possibility in a racist society. It is at once scholarly and literary, imaginative and the hardest truths.Ģ. Hartman spins painstaking research into gold that reads like fiction. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartmanĭid you know that at the beginning of the twentieth century, young Black women in New York and Philly sparked a radical cultural movement defined by free love, queer relations, and alternative forms of cohabitation, intimacy, and kinship bonds? Neither did I, until I read this aching, gorgeous, brilliant book. ![]() So, as a firm believer in the transformative power of a good book, I invite you to roar your way through the ’20s, starting with these deep, daring, delicious reads.ġ. ![]() Given the sad state of our democracy, extrajudicial police killings, and the reinvigoration of fascism and white supremacy, never before have I wished so hard for peace on Earth and goodwill toward humanity. Let’s face it: The ’10s have been quite the shitshow of a decade. ![]()
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