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Examines Octavia Butler's portrayal of black female protagonists as "captive maternals," highlighting their resilience and agency in speculative fiction, contrasting with mainstream science fiction narratives that often marginalize or erase their experiences.
LinkLike a white lady with no worry on her mind.”
Brit Bennett • The Vanishing Half: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize 2021
the papers of the Southern Conference Education Fund, is my mother talking in 1974 about the indigenous prison struggle, meaning Black Southerners recognizing that locking people up was a tool of social control.
Imani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
In Portnoy’s Complaint, Portnoy says that underneath their skirts girls all have cunts. What he didn’t say—and this was his trouble, his real complaint—was that underneath their skirts they also had souls. When they were undressed, I saw their souls as well as their cunts. They wore their souls like negligés that they never took off. And one man in
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