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A Burst of Light, Audre Lorde
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BOOK 16: The Selected Works of Audre Lorde
I've been meaning to read this for the longest time and I'm so glad I finally got around to it. A lot of her essays and poems really resonated with me. In particular I think everyone should read "The Workers Rose on May Day Or Postscript To Karl Marx". Audre Lorde is a magnificent writer and both her prose and her poems continue to be relevant to our global intersectional struggles today. A must-read for sure.
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Since the Israeli genocide in the Gaza Strip started, I have been reviewing British media and its everyday items, such as the newspaper, phone, posters, and TV channels that seep into the public’s consciousness. Without the critical tools and education to puncture through their framing, we become complicit and easily intimidated. Some media outlets have gone as far as spreading misinformation, which surely would have been considered a hate crime in other contexts. Both the Daily Telegraph and The Times chose this misinformation as the headline for their October 11th issues. Although some (not all!) of those newspapers have already retracted their original false claims, the damage has already been done.
The Guardian chose to adorn its main headline for October 12th with the words ‘Israelis suspended between fear, grief and foreboding.’ The Daily Mail selected ‘The King Calls Them Terrorists, Why Can’t the BBC?’ Marching to the same beat, the Daily Telegraph opted to plaster the Royals’ condemnation of Hamas on its front pages. Survey the pages of the newspapers, and the stories eliciting support and empathy for Israel abound, making it clear who the perpetrators are and that vengeance against them is justified. Meanwhile, the Palestinians are only evoked through the register of terrorism and violence. Even those headlines, which are shy in their coverage of the Israeli genocide in Gaza, intentionally omit the perpetrators: the Israeli army and state. They are designed to neglect the root and cause of the violence: Israeli settler colonialism. By settler colonialism, we mean the gradual transfer of European Jews to the land of Palestine, the coercive displacement and dispossession of the indigenous Palestinian population, and the imposition of a coordinated and sustainable system that turns this displacement into a continuous process.
Western media relies on racial, gendered, and colonial tropes to describe the atrocities in Palestine. It instrumentalizes white female faces to elicit support for Israel. Such a tactic simultaneously serves racism, patriarchy, and colonialism. It relies on notions of white female ‘innocence’ and ‘victimhood’ to justify the continuous erasure of Palestine. In a headline by the Daily Telegraph about a British IDF female soldier, below, we are shown a smiling white female soldier wearing military attire and a keffiyeh on her head. Neither the photograph nor the article questions why a British citizen is justified in enlisting in a settler army elsewhere, let alone the same army that is committing genocide in the Gaza Strip. To the contrary, the article frames such enlisting as voluntary and dignified. These strategies bring to mind 9/11, Laura Bush, and the weaponization of white feminism in the service of imperialist and colonial expansion. Black and Brown feminist scholars and activists, including Lila Abu Lughod, bell hooks, Angela Davis, Audre Lorde amongst others, have long debunked and punctured through such strategies. It is this same white feminism that has been utilized by the media and governments to justify the intensification of Israeli brutality against the Palestinian residents of Gaza.
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ftmtftm's reading (and watching) list
So I've been putting this list together to help people understand my beliefs and also to expand their own. This is a list of theorists, poets, authors, artists, and people that I often source from whose works have deeply impacted my framework of the world. I hope someone else can find them useful as well.
I've included several videos because I know how inaccessible academic text can be, but I do encourage you to read the text if you're able and seek out copies of books listed at your local libraries or independent book sellers/second hand book shops! When I could not find a PDF for a written work I have added Thrift Books links. Also double check the Internet Archive, Trans Reads, and The Anarchist Library for more readings!!
If any of these links break please let me know and I'll see what I can do to fix them. I'll be adding to this list as time goes on as currently these are just the books I can see on my bookshelf and videos I could remember I've seen before!
3.4.2024 - This list is slightly outdated in that there are several authors and works I need to add. Please seach the names James Baldwin and Audre Lorde or simply my reading list tag on my blog for additional resources.
Theory
Kimberlé Crenshaw:
Critial Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed The Movement - thrift books
Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color - PDF
The Urgency of Intersectionality - video
Kimberlé Crenshaw Intersectionality is NOT identity - video exerpt from her WOW keynote speech
Angela Davis:
Angela Davis Criticizes "Mainstream Feminism" / Bourgeois Feminism - video
Angela Davis What it means to be a Revolutionary (1972 Interview) - video
Roxane Gay:
Bad Feminist: Essays - Internet Archive
Roxane Gay: Confessions of a bad feminist - video
Roxane Gay, Feminism and Difficult Women - video
bell hooks:
Feminism is for Everybody - PDF
The Will to Change - Internet Archive / audio book - YouTube
All About Love - PDF / audio book - YouTube
Teaching to Transgress PDF / audio book - YouTube
Speaking Freely: bell hooks - video
bell hooks & john a. powell: Belonging Through Connection (Othering & Belonging Conference 2015) - video
bell hooks & Gloria Steinem at Eugene Lang College - video (intro ends 7:24)
Emi Koyama:
The Transfeminist Manifesto - PDF
Ijeoma Oluo:
So You Want to Talk About Race - thrift books
Ijeoma Oluo Talks at Google - video
Public Presentation with Ijeoma Olua - video
History / Journals
P. Carl:
Becoming a Man - thrift books
Library Labyrinth Live Presents: P. Carl Becoming a Man - video (intro ends approx. 3:20)
P. Carl Prologue UCCS - video (audio quality poor)
Keith Haring:
Journals - PDF
Keith Haring Documentary - video
Keith Haring On The Fence - video
Jack Lowery:
It Was Vulgar & It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic - thrift books
Susan Stryker:
Transgender History - PDF
Transitions, with Susan Stryker - podcast - YouTube
Lou Sullivan:
We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan 1961-1991 - trans reads
Trans Oral History: Meeting Lou Sullivan - video
A series of video interviews with Lou - playlist
Fiction / Poetry
Chinua Achebe:
Things Fall Apart (novel) - PDF
I'm trying hard to not add too much of my own commentary to this post but personally I really think it's helpful to read Things Fall Apart in theoretical conversation with The Will to Change by bell hooks and in direct conversation with one of the works it was written in response to, The Heart of Darkness
Arundhati Roy:
The God of Small Things (novel) - thrift books
Arundhati Roy talks about her life and views on the world - video
Warsan Shire:
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head (poetry collection) - thrift books
Warsan Shire reads her poetry - video
Zadie Smith:
White Teeth (novel) - Internet Archive
White Teeth (4 part Real Drama adaptation) - videos
Zadie Smith Interview: On Bad Girls, Good Guys and the Complicated Midlife - video
A Conversation with Zadie Smith - video
Pamela Sneed:
Funeral Diva (poetry and prose collection) - thrift books
Pamela Sneed Discusses "Funeral Diva" - video
I offer you a secret meme for your time (with books I still need to add to this list):
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hi❣️what are some things (novels, hobbies, music, shows, etc.) that have fundamentally shifted your personal paradigm(s)?
This is not at all an exhaustive list, but I love this question and wanted to answer!
Books
Zami: A New Spelling of my Name (Lorde)
The Selected Works of Audre Lorde
The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
Freedom is a Constant Struggle, Angela Davis
Women, Race, and Class by Angela Davis
Are Prisons Obsolete by Angela Davis
Ain’t I a Woman? by bell hooks
Feminism is for Everybody by bell hooks
Directed by Desire (Poems) by June Jordan
Killing the Black Body by Dorothy Roberts
Fatal Invention by Dorothy Roberts
Far from the Tree by Andrew Solomon
The Language and Thought of the Child, Piaget
Little Weirds by Jenny Slate
Music (Albums):
Madvillainy
Tha Carter 3
Deadication 2
Take Me Apart
Good kid, m.A.A.d city
Section.80
A Seat at the Table
From the Westside with Love II
Honestly, so many to list but I do have a page on my blog filled with songs that are important to me! Here
Hobbies:
Writing!
Music production my SoundCloud
Cooking and baking
Brewing and flavoring kombucha
Video games
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13 Books Tag Game
tagged by @disregardandfelicity (thank you <3)
i read a ton of non-fiction for academic and interest reasons, but i'm only considering fiction for this!
1) The last book I read:
I know I just said I was only talking about fiction, BUT I recently read Audre Lorde's memoir, The Cancer Journals, and I would highly recommend it. Lorde was such an incredible writer (i would recommend her poetry, too), and this book is half memoir and half sections from the personal diary she kept during and after her journey with breast cancer. Lorde was a self-professed Black lesbian feminist, and had unique and powerful takes on womanhood, cancer, and life in general.
2) A book I recommend:
I always recommend Perfume the Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind! It's one of my favorite books.
3) A book that I couldn’t put down:
I've been working my way through Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles and averaging about two days per book, so...lol. I would also add Carolina de Robertis's Gods of Tango, I think I read all 400 pages in one sitting.
4) A book I’ve read twice (or more):
I loooove to reread books. One of my absolute favorite go-to comfort books is Bambi by Marjorie Benton Cooke -- it's not about the deer, it's sort of a romcom? The characters are all so vivid and fun! You have the main character, Bambi, who is a very Anne of Green Gables type character -- she's independent, imaginative, a bit of a daydreamer, loves to dance, and decides one day to be a writer. Then there's her adoptive father, the Professor, who is a mathematician and just an eccentric little old man. Then there's Jarvis -- the poor poverty-stricken playwright with his head in the clouds that very clearly thinks he's the main character of this story (he is, kind of. He's the love interest, but not in the way you think). That was long, but it's honestly one of my favorite books! Marjorie Benton Cooke wrote a handful of really fun books in her lifetime that just never got super popular (I also love Cinderella Jane and The Cricket, which are connected but can be read alone).
5) A book on my TBR:
My fiction TBR is currently sitting at 141, so...random selection: Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca! It was highly recommended by a friend.
6) A book I’ve put down:
I have a rule where, unless the issue is stylistic and I just can't bear the author's writing, I have to power through 50% of the book before I can quit, in case it gets better later. A lot of times, this works, and I end up really liking the book! But one book I tried my absolute hardest to like and just couldn't manage it (quit at 70%) was A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers. I found the narrator unlikable in an annoying way and the story itself boring (how do you make serial killing and cannibalism boring??) IDK. It came highly recommended and apparently was super popular, but it wasn't for me.
7) A book on my wish list:
Let us Descend by Jesmyn Ward! It came out last year, but I haven't had a chance to look at it yet (fingers crossed my library has a copy by the time I have some free time to read).
8) A favorite book from childhood:
Silksinger, the second book in the Faeries of Dreamdark series by Laini Taylor. The series was never finished, but the characters from Silksinger hold a special place in my heart. One of the main characters is called Hirik Mothmage, for reference how much I love this book, lol.
9) A book you would give to a friend:
Ooh, good question. I recently gave someone my copy of Boccaccio's Decameron, because I think it's funny!! I really feel like if people can get through the language, they'll be dead laughing at some of the stories.
10) A book of poetry or lyrics that you own
I have a handful! My favorite is probably a collection of Edgar Allen Poe's works that's bound in a nice cover.
11) A nonfiction book you own:
Many, lol. Mostly digital -- I try not to hoard physical books unless I really really love them, because I just don't have the space. Something I read a few years ago and still think about often is Dorothy Roberts's Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty, which talks about how the 20th century (U.S.) struggle for reproductive rights looked very different for white women and Black women (for Black women, it was essentially the right to reproduction). Her newer book Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Recreate Race in the Twenty-First Century is a great follow-up read.
12) What are you currently reading:
Currently re-reading another memoir, The Surrendered: Reflections by a Son of Shining Path by José Carlos Agüero. Picking up Pandora by Anne Rice as soon as I have some time for fiction.
13) What are you planning on reading next?
Besides the rest of the Vampire Chronicles, I really want to read Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist (another friend recommendation).
No-pressure tagging: @eosphoroz @hekateinhell @lovevamp @aunteat @bubblegum-blackwood or anyone else who wants to -- tag me if you do, i love stuff like this!
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to preface this, in Audre Lorde's words:
"the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house."
the ICJ is the judicial body of the UN and is essentially the legal limb of western hegemony. its conception of "justice" is selective and has failed the global south time and time again, so truly, liberation will be delivered by those in need of it; Palestinian freedom will ultimately be delivered by Palestinian resistance.
that being said, the recent provisional measures (click) are still a step forward in a long road ahead, a pebble in what we hope will be a landslide. an explicit, direct call for ceasefire would’ve been miles better than the lukewarm legal-worded ruling, but as the South African foreign minister has stated (click), by implication, what the ICJ has done is effectively issue an order for a ceasefire. to stop "israel" and its military from committing any more acts within the scope of genocide, to provide humanitarian aid and medical care, to implement the order in its entirety, a ceasefire must happen first. at best, this symbolic, historic win could open many doors, but time is of the essence.
we know by now that whatever the order, as long as it favors South Africa and the people of Palestine, "israel" would only choose to ignore it, as it has always done. the question now is whether it's western sponsors and those complicit will listen to their own mechanisms of international justice. will they play by the rules they've made, or is impunity also just a flimsy word to them?
of course, this is only an interim ruling, this isn't the final verdict. history was made this January, but this progress should not make us complacent. now that "israel" is being formally investigated for genocide, what we can do with this ruling is put even more pressure on our own governments to rethink their diplomacy in relation to "israel," call for a permanent ceasefire, and stop the genocide. there is still work to do, but this is a definite stepping stone towards freedom.
here is a great thread worth reading on this ruling (click).
#peace is not the answer; liberation is the answer#resources#icj#south africa#palestine#free palestine
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notes of a crocodile, children of paradise, in the dream house, the selected works of audre lorde, auga viva <3
so u like sad gay women hmm I would rec little blue encyclopaedia—hazel jane piante and kari—amruta patil !
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Reading List for 2023
I have settled on my reading list for the year and my reading goal. The books below encompass the books I will choose from (I don't expect to finish all of them). My goal is to read 52 books this year, not including JAFF. I will probably return to this list several times just to discuss how it is going.
Nonfiction
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate by Naomi Klein (2014)
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde (1982)
Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde by Alexis de Veaux (2006)
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (2007)
Blue Nights by Joan Didion (2011)
Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion (2021)
A House of My Own: Stories from My Life by Sandra Cisneros (2015)
A Taste of Power: A Black Woman’s Story by Elaine Brown (1992)
Some of Us Did Not Die by June Jordan (2002)
On Call: Political Essays by June Jordan (1998)
The Cultural Politics of Emotion by Sara Ahmed (2004)
Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver (2016)
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas (2004)
The Choice: Embrace the Possible by Edith Eger (2017)
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner (2021)
Ohitika Woman by Mary Brave Bird (1994)
And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos by John Berger (1991)
Time is the Thing a Body Moves Through by T Fleischmann (2019)
Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman (1998)
The Care Manifesto by The Care Collective (2020)
Dancing at the Edge of the World by Ursula K. Le Guin (1997)
Fiction
A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion (1977)
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami (2014)
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (2019)
The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante (2013)
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante (2014)
The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante (2015)
The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante (2008)
The Bone People by Keri Hulme (1986)
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (2006)
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (1811)
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (1814)
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (1817)
Atonement by Ian McEwan (2003)
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich (2021)
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams (2021)
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien (1954)
The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien (1954)
The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien (1955)
Babel by R.F. Kuang (2022)
Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz (2020)
The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz (2018)
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce (2013)
Poetry
Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong (2022)
Blue Iris: Poems and Essays by Mary Oliver (2006)
Work
The Hidden Inequities of Labor-Based Contract Grading by Ellen Carillo (2021)
Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence by J. Logan Smilges (2022)
Our Body of Work ed. by Melissa Nicolas and Anna Sicari (2022)
Teachers as Cultural Workers by Paulo Freire (2005)
Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed (2017)
The Cultural Politics of Emotion by Sara Ahmed (2004)
The Vulnerable Observer by Ruth Behar (1997)
Getting Lost by Patti Lather (2007)
Race, Rhetoric, and Research Methods by Alexandria Lockett, Iris D. Ruiz , James Chase Sanchez, and Christopher Carter (2021)
Opening Spaces by Patricia Sullivan and James Porter (1997)
Decolonizing Methodologies by Linda Tuhiwai Smith (2021)
Counterstory by Aja Y. Martinez (2020)
The Courage to Teach by Parker Palmer (2017)
We Make the Road by Walking by Paulo Freire and Myles Horton
Writing with Power by Peter Elbow (1998)
Writing without Teachers by Peter Elbow (1998)
The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop by Felicia Chavez (2021)
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hello hello. i recommended the left hand of darkness to you a few months ago and now i’m here to ask you to return the favour with a nonfiction recommendation for me – maybe something on gender or race but not necessarily, just whatever you’ve found interesting. maybe a couple recs if you’ve got them because i’m hoping to find it as an audiobook on Libby and my library can be hit or miss. thank you!!!
Hiya! So I took a look on Libby and the audiobook options (at least for my library) for these topics are somewhat limited, but they did have some bell hooks and Audre Lorde on there, so definitely worth checking out Sister Outside and Women, Race, and Class (Lorde) if you haven't already. One bell hooks book I read and enjoyed recently was The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love – underrated within the feminist text canon, but a really interesting book that talks about patriarchal socialization and men from her perspective as a black woman who grew up with a physically abusive father. Some of the sentiments in it don't age well, but imo I think it's best understood as part of her larger body of work, not something that's meant to be an all-encompassing view of her feminism (as in: the book talks a lot about men and men's experience and feelings from a feminist POV but that's the entire point lol, she has plenty of other books about women).
Some other books:
From Disgust to Humanity: Sexual Orientation and Constitutional Law by Martha C. Nussbaum – a little dry sounding but hear me out lol, it's an excellent exploration of the logic of disgust and contamination that underpins the politics surrounding gay liberation. Great read if you're interested in topics of queerness and philosophy but find some of the more well-known texts a little dense.
Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through by T Fleischmann – long essay, it's been a while since I read this, but it made an impression.
We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan
Again, not sure if you'll be able to find any of these as audiobooks, but I included download links so if anything sounds interesting and if digital reading is an option for you, hopefully you can check em out that way! 💛
#I'd really like to revisit the nussbaum tbh. I remember it being pretty engaging bc I read it on my phone on the subway ride to/from school#lol. I played with writing my thesis on something about disgust and medical ethics because of it
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Episode 182 - Lyric Poetry
This episode we’re talking about the format of Lyric Poetry! We talk about reading poetry out loud, translation, French Canadian dialects, and more!
You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system.
In this episode
Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards
Things We Read (or tried to…)
Entre Rive and Shore by Dominique Bernier-Cormier
Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season: Selected Poems by Forugh Farrokhzad, translated by Elizabeth T. Gray Jr
Ledger: Poems by Jane Hirshfield
Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy
Goldenrod: Poems by Maggie Smith
Good Bones: Poems by Maggie Smith
Alive At The End Of The World by Saeed Jones
The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes on by Franny Choi
No Matter the Wreckage by Sarah Kay
White Pine: Poems and Prose Poems by Mary Oliver
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire
Le premier coup de clairon pour réveiller les femmes immorales by Rachel McCrum
The Hurting Kind by Ada Limón
The Arkansas Testament by Derek Walcott
Alive at the End of the World by Saeed Jones
Other Media We Mentioned
The Bronze Horseman by Alexander Pushkin
19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei: With More Ways by Eliot Weinberger
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
“The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop
When We Were Very Young by A. A Milne
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation by Dante Alighieri, translated by Robert Pinsky
All Def Poetry
milk and honey by rupi kaur
One Piece by Eiichiro Oda
Trailer for Netflix show
“Poetry Is Not a Luxury” by Audre Lorde (pdf)
Links, Articles, and Things
Lyric poetry (Wikipedia)
The Writer's Block
The Midnight Library: Episode 001 - Halloween Poetry
Chiac (Wikipedia)
Plasco Building (Wikipedia)
30 Recent Poetry Collections by BIPOC Authors
Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.
This booklist features books from BIPOC poets published in the past three years.
Chrome Valley by Mahogany L. Browne
Feast by Ina Cariño
Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency by Chen Chen
Girls That Never Die: Poems by Safia Elhillo
Content Warning: Everything by Akwaeke Emezi
I Do Everything I'm Told by Megan Fernandes
Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry edited by Joy Harjo
Song of my Softening by Omotara James
Spells, Wishes, and the Talking Dead / Mamaht́wisiwin, Pakos̊yimow, Nikihci-́niskot́ṕn : Poems by Wanda John-Kehewin
Burning Like Her Own Planet by Vandana Khanna
Phantom Pain Wings by Kim Hyesoon, translated by Don Mee Choi
Bianca by Eugenia Leigh
Finna by Nate Marshall
Slam Coalkan Performance Poetry: The Condor and the Eagle Meet edited by Jennifer Murrin
God Themselves by Jae Nichelle
You Are Only Just Beginning: Lessons for the Journey Ahead by Morgan Harper Nichols
I’m Always So Serious by Karisma Price
Homie by Danez Smith
Blood Snow by dg nanouk okpik
Promises of Gold/Promesas de Oro by José Olivarez with translation by David Ruano
That Was Now, This is Then by Vijay Seshadri
it was never going to be okay by jaye simpson
Dark Testament by Crystal Simone Smith
Unshuttered: Poems by Patricia Smith
Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls by Kai Cheng Thom
Femme in Public by Alok Vaid-Menon
Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong
Find Her. Keep Her. by Renaada Williams
Rupture Tense by Jenny Xie
From From by Monica Youn
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Do you have any favorite authors and/or fic writers? Or if the written word is not your jam, perhaps artists, directors, photographers, oceanographers, etc.?
oh this question is beyond delightful, as i am, above all else, an enthusiast about many things! i may just keep this to literature for now, as i may make a post about my favorite artists sometime soon!
ya boi has a master's degree in creative writing and literature, so this is abso-fucking-lutely my jam. there are so many authors i love that i'd have to divide it into subcategories and it might be easier to just talk about my favorites lately. my mfa thesis is a book of poetry, so i'll give you a smattering of my direct inspirations for this project --
-don't let me be lonely by claudia rankine is a remarkable work of prose poetry that is required reading for anyone looking to delve into hybrid/experimental work
-there are more beautiful things than beyonce by morgan parker. morgan’s deft mastery of language is something i greatly envy, this is a book i have gifted to my favorite people a few times over
-night sky with exit wounds by ocean vuong -- this book is not as heavily about his mother as his subsequent works are, but it weaves a thread throughout that influenced my work
-if you can get your hands on anything of emily dickinson's that has not been revised, please do so
-4:30 movie by donna massini -- i attended a reading of selections from this book and it broke me
-one of my former professors, david groff, is an incredible poet and creative nonfiction writer. mindblowing stuff.
-i referenced heavily from an utter tome of a book, the complete works of audre lorde, but her mid-career material once she was a professor was remarkable
as for fic authors --
my favorite is, if it wasn't abundantly clear, @sparklyslug. a few of my other favorites, in no particular order: @enfreakment, @copperbadge, @sashayed, @greatunironic, @dallae, @micamicster!
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things i liked this year
- breaking things at work: why the luddites were right about why you hate your job by Gaving Mueller
- black tambourine self titled (2010)
- this sleater-kinney live video from new years eve 1997 i swear its either this one or another version where carrie gets off the stage for some sort of kissing booth related reason:
youtube
- blood bread and poetry: selected prose 1979 - 1985 by Adrienne Rich
- grass widow selft titled (2009)
- ladies and gentlemen the fabulous stains (1982)
- haunted by laura les (2021)
- this lentil stew:
- regarding the pain of others by susan sontag
- dark/gold by SOAR (2017)
- paris hilton l word promo from 2007 where she is very friendly with kate moennig:
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- i hate suzie too (HBO, 2022)
- las ruinas by rico nasty (2022)
- these pickles:
- the purity you took from me cannot be replaced by MAIR (2022)
- it follows (2014)
- uses of the erotic: the erotic as power by audre lorde
- these cool people who did cool stuff episodes about baba yaga:
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the good stuff, audre lorde, and the erotic
I recently got into a creative writing workshop at Harvard for the spring semester. It's called "The Good Stuff," which sounds extremely promising. For our first class, I've been assigned the chapter "Uses of the Erotic" from Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde.
Here are some select quotes that spoke to me:
"But giving in to the fear of feeling and working to capacity is a luxury only the unintentional can afford, and the unintentional are those who do not wish to guide their own destinies."
"The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference."
"The self-connection shared is a measure of the joy which I know myself to be capable of feeling, a reminder of my capacity for feeling."
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I'm not even surprised that Alice Walker threw her lot in with that terf woman at all. Alice despite coining womanism or wtv really just despises women who she thinks are beneath her. look at how she's treated her daughter. from her work outside of her fiction it's so clear she thinks there's a certain ideal of a woman she writes for/about and anyone else can fall by the wayside and while it's totally fine to have a select audience in mind it always read to me as a chaff vs wheat delineation yk? I compare her with Audre Lorde for example as a notable black wlw contemporary and the difference is so stark. Audre's work is so roomy like it's so many different kinds of black women who she was speaking to telling them something very specific about a circumstance of life or experience they might share. Alice was never trying to bring people into her reality to share with her. she's trying to preach and tell you who you should be and I don't appreciate that at all.
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02.18.23 | It was such a beautiful Saturday morning. The way the sun washed over my plants and books, I had to take a picture!
"The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives. It is within this light that we form those ideas by which we pursue our magic and make it realized." -Audre Lorde The Selected Works of Audre Lorde
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