Reimagining the Quest for Black Freedom in the USA: Saidiya Hartman’s Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
It took me some time to understand what Hartman was creating with this book; to understand that...
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Tag: black women writers
Zora Neale Hurston to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: “You are my sister”
Unlikely friendships. They’re often the best because they’re out of the ordinary and anything out...
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Zora Neale Hurston: Nasty Women Writers Who Were Good Friends
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953), woman writer and author of the wildly popular novel The...
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All That She Carried by Tiya Miles: Recovering the Untold Stories of Black Women in America
First she was told about a grain sack dating from around 1851 that had these words embroidered on...
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Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route by Woman Writer Saidiya Hartman
Black woman writer, author and scholar Tiya Miles is inspired by and gives credit and mention to...
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Sonya Renee Taylor: The Map Back to Ourselves
Since reading Sonya Renee Taylor’s book The Body Is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical...
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Morgan Jerkins: This woman writer is on fire! And we all get to benefit.
Morgan Jerkins is a woman writer on fire who we are all benefitting from. At 29 she has written...
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Writing at its Best: The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw, a Woman Writer at Her Best
This book was recommended to me by Amazon. That’s right. It popped up on my kindle as, “you may be...
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what the patriarchy has to gain from us feeling unloved and unlovable—Communion: the female search for love by bell hooks (American Woman Writer, 2002)
This book kinda sorta unexpectedly rocked my world. It has such an innocent title. Gah! I had...
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