I tried to bring this energy into Monday but it didn’t really take. Gonna try again today! 🤞🏾
1. Audre Lorde in her study, 1981 / 📷: JEB
2. Nikki Giovanni, 1975 / 📷: Jill Krementz
3. Maya Angelou, 1974 / 📷: Wayne Miller
!! March Reads !! Ask, and you shall receive. Here's what I'm reading this month...
Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks: I've been reading (and writing) a lot more poetry over the last year. I'm trying to slowly make my way through the completed works of a few of my favorite poets. This book in particular has been a challenge. Some poems require 1, 2, 3 reads before I really grasp what she's telling me. But I'm grateful for every second. This one makes you work for it.
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones: I love a thriller. I love suspense. And I love Native American Literature. I'm about 70ish pages into the ebook and so far it follows a man named Lewis who's been forced to confront his past after he starts hallucinating a baby elk everywhere. Creepy shit.
Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall: Listening to the audio book of this one! It's been in my @librofm (great audio book app that supports Indie bookstores - highly recommend!) for a minute. Black women feminist theory that feels grounded in today and tomorrow. I also stan any takedown of yt feminism that I can get my hands on so there's that too.
Letters from Black America edited by Pamela Newkirk: I've been passively reading this over the last month or so. I've been gripped by the intimacy and legacy of the letters, written by black people spanning the 1800s - 2000s. The idea of sitting down, reflecting, and writing a letter feels so foreign to many of us, myself included but it's inspired me to start writing letters (DM if you wanna be my pen-pal!).
I’m alive 😅—— it’s been a MINUTE but I’m back on this side of town. So here’s a bunch of pictures of my face from the last year-ish😁 I’m thinking of turning this account into a bookstagram (Do y’all want book recs or no?)
