views are my own rep: Dorian Maffei @K_C_Associates The Only Black Girl in the Room May ‘24 @alcovepress 🏳️🌈The Payback Girls Spring ‘25 @sourcebooksfire
It's #coverreveal time! THE ONLY BLACK GIRL IN THE ROOM💛 by @AlexAwritergirl, a compelling debut novel🖋️ perfect for fans of Jayne Allen, Jasmine Guillory, and Zakiya Dalila Harris, is coming May 7, 2024!💗 Read it early on @NetGalley ➡️ https://t.co/XvhxifgPf3
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Incredible @BaltimoreBanner story about a 9-year-old boy, Tristan King, who has been living out on his own, eluding authorities, since September, through the harsh winter. The government even sent armed US marshals looking for him.
Pls take two minutes to listen to her entire response not just the one sentence highlighted in the caption. She lays it out PERFECTLY.
"I'll first say a big shout out to Mike and Delroy, like let's continue to honor them for how they handled that in real time, the grace and the dignity that they exercised, and the whole home team, everybody that was out there, like really carried themselves well. I think the events this weekend exposed a couple things - Institutionally, we still don't understand what inclusion means."
"Just because you invite someone into a space, but you don't provide the necessary resources to keep them and everyone else in that room safe by them being there, that's not inclusivity. That's exploitation."
"That man's disability got exploited that night, and it led to multiple offenses. That's the BAFTA's fault. And then the BBC, to air what they aired is careless."
"And not like some haphazard accident, no, like a real lack of care was exercised for those two Black men. And we know the BBC knows how to take care of what they care about, right, because they censored a bunch of other... they went so far as to make sure certain things weren't topics of conversation."
"They censored Akinola's speech, the director of My Father's Shadow, which is an amazing film, by the way. So you censored one Black man, you failed to protect two others, and our production designer, Hannah, you do not care for our dignity, our humanity."
"You want to celebrate our art, but you won't protect, and that's why we celebrate sinners. That's why we celebrate Ryan. That's why we show up to the NAACP, because those are spaces where we felt safe, where we feel safe."
- Jayme Lawson
I’ve been recommending black authors to my friends this black history month, which means I’m once again recommending you all to read “The Payback Girls” by @AlexAwritergirl. It’s really an exciting whodunnit