Venturing into identity and color, one word at a time
I don’t want to put all of my political eggs in one basket, but I really think we as a country should hand everything over to Stacey Abrams. When I think of her campaign for the governorship of Georgia this past year, and the way in which she is now dedicating her time to fighting …
Continue reading Confront, Circumvent, and Create: Voicefull Recommends Minority Leader
Happy Black History Month! I had originally planned on posting this recommendation last week, but because I am a proponent of celebrating romance every day of the year, I figured I'd wait a couple of days and send you all a dose of love after the chocolatey, red-petaled euphoria of Valentine’s Day had fully waned. …
Continue reading A Love Made for the Resistance: Voicefull Recommends Let It Shine
The best recommendations I’ve ever gotten for new books or writers have come to me not from fellow readers, but from the authors whose stories have stayed with me over the years. I had heard Audre Lorde’s name before as an English major at UVA, but I never sought out any of her work until …
Continue reading Let’s Joyfully Destroy That Patriarchy: Recommendation of Sister Outsider
Reading is highly subjective. We all know this. So for me, the stories that I love most are those that allow the ordinary, everyday experiences of human life to commune with the divine. Writers whose stories oscillate easily between micro and macro, and who center their characters, real or fictional, with feet firmly rooted in …
Continue reading There’s A New MJ in Town: Recommendation of This Will Be My Undoing
