A month where I got a little older (happy birthday to me!) and where toxic masculinity just flung itself all over the place...
Anita Hill continues to eloquently speak truth to power even though she probably wants to bust car windows and say: "Y'all back on this admitting lying sexual predators onto the Supreme Court fuckshit again?"
In Sometimes I Hate My State News: Hillary Clinton, Eleanor Roosevelt, Betty Friedan, and Helen Keller are deemed "unnecessary" for Texas school books because well, it's just not 1812 enough for some people.
How to write a great sentence according to Joe Moran
Rebecca Solnit explores the storytellers of gender narratives and the gross entitlement of white men, while Megan Garber wonders if we'll ever get past the "boys will be boys" narrative in the time of #KavaNope
Blackballing and bigotry: the price for being a 'cocky' Black woman
I'm in good company with these 25 writers who dish about the agony (and defeat) of writer's block
The traditions of Audre Lorde reside in US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith
So we're still calling Joyce Maynard an "opportunist" for her relationship with J.D. Salinger? *eyeroll*
Thirty, Flirty & Thriving: Roald Dahl's telekinetic bibliophile (and my first literary she-ro), Matilda Wormwood turned 30 this year, and book's illustrator Quentin Blake imagines what she'd be up to today.
Let me know what were your favorite reads of the month!
Showing posts with label candor continued. Show all posts
Showing posts with label candor continued. Show all posts
September 30, 2018
August 31, 2018
Candor Continued: First Take
Where I allow someone else to do all the talking....
Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman shows how white supremacists utilize language into a weapon
Is journalism a form of activism? I pump my fist in the air and holler: 'hell yes!', but others see it differently...
There is such a thing as a "literary detective" and now I want to be one when I grow up
I'm so here for Anne With An 'E' setting the stage for a super feminist, queer-friendly season 3 and for drawing on under-discussed history to expand on the world L.M. Montgomery created.
Nicole Chung on how to write a memoir while still grieving the loss of a parent
The Hate U Give's controversy isn't in its subject matter, but a debate over cover art, colorism, and casting in the wake of its film adaptation
Just because we needed a reminder of how much of a fright fest our government is now, how 'bout we scare ourselves with seven books that imagine life without landmark Supreme Court Cases!
Hollywood needs saving, and Wattpad is the unsung hero throwing on a cape
A trio of women are bringing much needed color to the romance industry
Erik Hane on why the more resonant books written in the Trump era won't be about Trump
The hidden oral history of Zora Neale Hurston's "lost novel" Barracoon
Trees, tanks, and tunnels --- the weirdest libraries around the world
Only children (like moi) will get this hilarious table of contents
Let me know what were your favorite reads of the month!
Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman shows how white supremacists utilize language into a weapon
Is journalism a form of activism? I pump my fist in the air and holler: 'hell yes!', but others see it differently...
There is such a thing as a "literary detective" and now I want to be one when I grow up
I'm so here for Anne With An 'E' setting the stage for a super feminist, queer-friendly season 3 and for drawing on under-discussed history to expand on the world L.M. Montgomery created.
Nicole Chung on how to write a memoir while still grieving the loss of a parent
The Hate U Give's controversy isn't in its subject matter, but a debate over cover art, colorism, and casting in the wake of its film adaptation
Just because we needed a reminder of how much of a fright fest our government is now, how 'bout we scare ourselves with seven books that imagine life without landmark Supreme Court Cases!
Hollywood needs saving, and Wattpad is the unsung hero throwing on a cape
A trio of women are bringing much needed color to the romance industry
Erik Hane on why the more resonant books written in the Trump era won't be about Trump
The hidden oral history of Zora Neale Hurston's "lost novel" Barracoon
Trees, tanks, and tunnels --- the weirdest libraries around the world
Only children (like moi) will get this hilarious table of contents
Let me know what were your favorite reads of the month!
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