Just finished You Made A Fool of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi and I don’t know why I expected to be able to function afterwards but as with every piece I read from them I am mush. All the feels. All the kinds of feels. I am undone. Yet again. #JustGonnaGoCry
Chingona & Proud
I’m actually holding 2 of my forthcoming books from @DelReyBooks and @TitanBooks
Take up space, Brown Girls
Do what they say you can’t. I believe in you 🙏🏽🙌🏽
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Update (3 chapters in): I didn’t think I could love anything as much/more than The Queen of Cicadas. I may have been wrong. I will, for the rest of my life and maybe even after I’m dead, purchase any/everything this woman writes.
The deeply felt joy of starting a book by an author you love and remembering exactly how much you love that author’s voice… These are things worth waking up for. (The book is Goddess of Filth by V. Castro, btw.)
CW: grief & refers to childhood trauma
The way she holds her father’s hand, no pinch // of humiliation.
Poem of the Week is “One Year After My Dying Father and I Stop Speaking to Each Other Again” by Eugenia Leigh. #Poem as audio & text: https://t.co/CSsr2ZPTp4
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There is a calm stream flowing within us even in the midst of turmoil and chaos. The last two and a half years have been FULL. They have been full of beauty, full of love, full of endings… (1/4)
Content Notice: refers to ableism
Your tongue, brain, heart / can each be organs of praise.
Poem of the Week is “On the Subway for the First Time” by Liv Mammone. Poem as audio & text at The Quarry: https://t.co/khDKegUy2O
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