10 Wednesday Jan 2018
Posted in 100 memoirs, I try, I write, Stuff I've read
Ta-Nehisi Coates is a writer I’ve followed for some time but who I am thoroughly intimidated to write about. He is superlatively intelligent when it comes to the violent racism of American history, a history I am glimpsing and uncovering more and more every day. I will never, can never, know a fraction of what Coates knows, but I swear I will read everything he writes from now on.
The Beautiful Struggle is a beautiful book. (Shit, see? I can barely write this.) Continue reading
30 Thursday Apr 2015
Posted in I try, Social commentary
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#BaltimoreUprising, activism, add value, David Graham, DeRay McKesson, empathy, Feminista Jones, Freddie Gray, Goldie Taylor, Jesse Williams, Jon Stewart, listen, read writers of color, Ta-nehisi Coates, The Atlantic
In that order, and on repeat. Photo by Flicker user Steven Shorrock (Creative Commons license).
Privilege is me thinking, crap, I haven’t written a blog post in 13 days, while Baltimore burns and suffers.
What do I have to say this week about being a single writing mom while so many mothers are mourning their children, dead at the hands of unchecked police brutality?
What do I have to say this week about being a single writing mom while thousands are dead in a massive earthquake in Nepal and I’m shopping for a new convertible crib/toddler bed online?
What do I have to say this week about being a single writing mom who, while a survivor of domestic violence, is not being ripped apart on social media for outing the abusive behavior of an apparently feminist-supporting poet and publisher?
Not a damn thing.
Here’s who I’m listening to, though, at least on the subject of #BaltimoreUprising: Continue reading
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