For all interested parties! Going on virtual tour plus a select couple of in person stops for my August novella, Fortune’s Wake,
aka Bad moms and Butch Mentors
aka CL Clark x The Witcher
More info at the link in bio!
my take is there’s no good soul food restaurant anywhere because that *way* of cooking isn’t meant to scale. it’s not to be made all day and exacted upon. it always lacks something outside of the context of home or church basement, idk.
The New York Black and African Literature Festival is accepting event proposals for its second edition, September 18-20 in Harlem. Panels, readings, workshops, performances, walking tours, bring your idea! Proposals due August 7 ✍🏾📚 https://t.co/9gVirt96Zr
i will say lindsey graham being asked by a reporter how mitch mcconnell is doing, answering “i don’t know, i’m going to check right now” and then dying is hilarious
Bouberrak. Kishi. Popobawa. Adze. Ninki Nanka. Tokoloshe. Mama Wata. The names our elders passed down to us. AFRICAN HORROR, our latest anthology, gathers writers from six countries to spin their own tales. But horror is not always mythical. Sometimes it wears a familiar face.
Today marks 250 years since a small group of newspaper editors, farmers, and soldiers signed a document declaring our nation’s independence — a truth that feels self-evident now but was revolutionary then.
What a privilege us Americans have, to live in a nation that every one of its inhabitants can shape. What an honor us New Yorkers have, to look out over our city’s waters from the shores where so many Americans bravely entered their country for the first time.
Today and all days, let us remember that patriotism is not pretending our nation is without flaws. Patriotism is every act of righteous dissent — because loving our country means fighting for the best version of it.
Happy Fourth of July, New York City.
Straight men never wanna discuss how they’re traumatized by homophobia and how it shaped the abuse they suffered as children. Niggas was 10 getting punched in the chest for being a kid (“feminine”) n years later you hate gay people but not homophobia.
Deranged.
Incarcerated people risk their lives and face, at a minimum, extreme brutality for this kind of protest. You can assume that the alternative––allowing whatever they have been enduring at this jail to continue unchecked––was a nightmare.