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To be seen, but by WHOM

I’m currently working on a blog post for my website, accompanied by a YouTube video, about how to start your own book club. Literally right now.

This isn’t a promotional post for that.

Although, ironically, working on it has sent me down...

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5 spooky books by Black authors you can read before Halloween (all 200 pages or less)

Short books. Big scares.

October is almost over, friend. If your spooky-season TBR is looking a little too ambitious, I have a proposition: What if we picked up something we could finish in one (maybe 2) sittings before Halloween?

9 days ago
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Camille Acker on A Very Special Episode: Black satire, respectability politics & power

What happens when the institutions meant to protect Black communities begin reproducing the hierarchies those communities have fought against?

What can satire reveal about race, class, respectability, and power that a more straightforward...

12 days ago
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How much of yourself are you willing to sell for proximity to whiteness?

Week One of The Oppressor Within: An Immersive Black Lit. Reading Curriculum

Featuring Camille Acker’s A Very Special Episode, George S. Schuyler’s Black No More, and the uncomfortable business of assimilation.

21 days ago
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You’re gonna wanna read this

Real quick — I promise I won’t take too too long…

I have a super secret book club that I’m only telling Substack and YouTube about. Call it a long form perk…

You can join the book club here.

Right now, we’re reading two books.

The activ...

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