Toni Morrison, June Jordan, Audrey Edwards, Alice Walker, Nana Maynard, Ntzoke Shange, and Vertamae Grosvenor at the first meeting of their writing group, “The Sisterhood.” (part of June Jordan Papers, Harvard Schlesinger Library)
Last year the folks from @bust_magazine reached out to me asking for a list of 5 books and as you see I had to be a little contrary and give them 6.
I also turned it into a mini writing assignment for myself and wrote out the reasons why I chose each one, I named it 5 Books for Bust and shared it on my Patreon.
Click www.Patreon.com/TFBWL to join
I also spent a couple months looking out for it, and then promptly forgot out about it because LIFE.
They shared my list yesterday 🎉 - “Righteous Recommendations from Olaronke Akinmowo”
it’s a cute teeny tiny feature, linked on my Twitter 📝
But more importantly, I noticed that we can have some serious Word Play, and craft sentences and stories with their titles.
For instance -
⭐️Black futures are filled with thick riotous girls, church ladies and sister outsiders who live secret lives with the stars and the Blackness between them.⭐️
♥️🌹📚♥️🌹
Rambly Reaction/Review to this week’s episode of RUN THE WORLD currently airing on Starz Network.
TFBWL BOOKMAIL ♥️🌹
Thank you so much to my lovely friends at @thenewpress for sending me a copy of MOUTHS OF RAIN/AN ANTHOLOGY OF BLACK LESBIAN THOUGHT edited by Briona Simone Jones.
“African-American and Afro Diasporic lesbian writers and theorists have made extra ordinary contributions to feminist theory, activism, and writing. MOUTHS OF RAIN, the companion anthology to Beverly Guy-Sheftall’s classic WORDS OF FIRE, traces the long history of intellectual thought produced by Black lesbian writers, spanning the 19th century through the 21st century. Using “Black lesbian” as a capacious signifiers, MOUTHS OF RAIN includes writing by Black women who have shared intimate and loving relationships with other women, as well as Black women who see bonding as mutual, Black women who who have self identified as lesbian, Black women who have written about Black lesbians, and Black women who theorize about and see the word lesbian as a political descriptive that disrupts and critique of capitalism, hetero sexism, and hetero patriarchy. Taking its title from a poem by Audre Lorde, MOUTHS OF RAIN addresses pervasive issues such as misogynoir and anti-Blackness while also attending to love, romance, “coming out”, and the erotic.”
This gorgeous collection features many of my favorite writers, brilliant literary wonders like Alice Walker, Pamela Sneed, JP Howard, Cheryl Clarke, Jewelle Gomez, Moya Bailey, Pauli Murray, Alexis Pauline Gumbs , Demita Frazier and Pat Parker!!! 🔥🌹🔥🌹🔥
New Bones
by Lucille Clifton
we will wear
new bones again
we will leave
these rainy days,
break out through
another month,
into sun and honey time,
worlds buzz over us like bees,
we be splendid in new bones
other people think they know
how long life is
how strong life is.
we know.
Blessed Poetry Month to all from me and the legendary Lucille Clifton. 💗🌸💗
Wishing you feelings of newness and regeneration 💗🌸
Photoset features New Bones poem on white floral background and B x W photo of Miss Clifton looking glorious and joyful.
Photo taken by Jill Krementz 6/19/1996. 😍💖🌸💛⭐️💐
TFBWL Rambly Reflection/Review of RUN THE WORLD, Season 1, Episode 1 -
Phenomenal Woman
I am doing weekly reflections of the Bravo series Pose in my YouTube channel.
I love this show for its themes, focus, gorgeous talented cast, brilliant soundtrack, and absolutely PERFECT costume and set design, but some of the execution of its plot lines really frustrate me.
Y’all might think I chose violence for this review but it definitely was not intentional. 😬
