I realized that I probably need to take some time to develop some critical distance from the pieces I read or watch, because my immediate reaction to most things is I really enjoyed it (unless it’s Catwoman. See Suicide Squad review.) So I read The Misadventures of Akward Black Girl and then took a break…
Tag: African-American
“Bad Feminist”: A Lesson in Discomfort
Reading Bad Feminist made me feel the same way I used to after leaving my Fictions of Black Identity class in college. I spent the first two classes speaking up, as I usually did in small seminars, and then stewing with this nauseating feeling of discomfort knotting in my stomach. The knot grew bigger and…
King of the Black Millennials: Daughters of the Wakandan Revolution
I am a daughter of the Wakandan Revolution. No, I am not confused. I don’t think I’m living in a comic book world (though some people might beg to differ.) What I mean to say is–I am one of the many Black Millennials looking for a hero that looks like them in a world overrun…
Book Review: African-American Classics: Graphic Classics Volume Twenty-Two
I have a hidden talent: I am rather gifted at randomly finding historical graphic novels about/written by Black people. This is the third of it’s kind that I’ve happened upon in the last few months, and it’s amazing. Turns out, Eureka Productions produces a series of “Graphic Classics” that adapts, you guessed it, classics into…
Book Review: March by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, & Nate Powell
As a lover of literature, art and Blackness, few things make me happier than Black art; specifically, graphic novels about Black history. It brings together all of my favorite things: intentional word, poignant images and the unadulterated truth of the Black experience in America. During one of my habitual adventures in my local Barnes and…
When you see no future
There comes a point where I become nauseous reblogging posts about Ferguson, about the men and women also killed by police brutality and about the blatant racism still alive today. I cried Monday night for so many reasons. I cried because of the refusal to indict. I cried because of frustration at Obama (which I…
Praising History
I have been quite aware of the white washing history trend of history textbooks. I have been aware of the fact that there is always a separate chapter on African-Americans and our history that has always been marvelously unconnected to the rest of the text, as if we were not there for the Revolution, the…
