“God bless these twenty-somethings” SZA sings on the final track of her groundbreaking 2017 album, CTRL, and though it’s a four-year-old song, it feels like the soundtrack to Morgan Rogers’ brilliant 2021 debut novel, Honey Girl. Honey Girl tells the story of Grace Porter, a queer Black woman in her late twenties who works herContinue reading “REVIEW: HONEY GIRL Highlights the Importance of Found Family in Our Twenty-Somethings”
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The 13 Best Books I Read in the Cursed Year of 2020
Though I’m certain it has already been articulated plenty over the last year, it bears repeating that words can offer us solace in difficult times. 2020 was a shit show on a global level, as well as a personal level, but reading provided me with a temporary escape—the knowledge of new perspectives, different lives. HereContinue reading “The 13 Best Books I Read in the Cursed Year of 2020”
10 Books I Read by Kickass Women in 2017
So what if I cheated on my Goodreads book challenge and included two books I teach every year so I could meet my goal? Let’s face it, 2017 was rough. I said the same thing when I wrote about my top 10 reads of 2016 and I thought it couldn’t get any worse, but hereContinue reading “10 Books I Read by Kickass Women in 2017”
10 Books I Read to Educate Myself in 2016
2016 was a rough year for the world. But to say it was rough for marginalized groups in the United States such as the LGBTQ community, people of color, or women, is a massive understatement. Between the Pulse Nightclub massacre in Orlando, a never-ending stream of police brutality, and the election of a president whoContinue reading “10 Books I Read to Educate Myself in 2016”
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