I don’t know if I was looking for something in particular when I began reading this book of essays. I had previously been introduced to the creative work of Alice Walker through her book, The Color Purple but landed upon this text when attempting to curate an African feminist syllabus. Little did I know then that […]
Tag: Poetry
An American Marriage: A Love Letter to the Black Community
“Georgia, this is a love letter. Everything I do is a love letter addressed to you.” There are a few books that can be best described as books you cannot put down once you start reading. Sure enough, An American Marriage fits the description. Similarly, every now and then, a book comes along that adds […]
Where Reasons End: A Meditation
CW: This might be a hard one for some of you as there are mentions of suicide. Feel free to stop here if you need to. … “Days are not the only place where we live, Nikolai said. Time is not the only place where we live, I said. Days are. I don’t have to […]
The Unsent Letter to the Modern Love Column of The New York Times
Each month, I save up my free NYT articles to be utilized solely within the modern love column. When the freebies fail to satiate me, as is often the case, I move on to their podcast which I religiously listen to on my way to school every Thursday morning. Recently, they had a college contest […]
To My Afrikan-in-America Comrade
There are power in words You are not a descendant of slaves You do not ascend from slavery You are a descendant of free people who were enslaved To stop your lineage at the point of disruption is to ignore the continuity of life that persisted through trauma and social death