#black women writers
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MIKARA REID
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Since we’re all stuck at home during this quarantine, and I want to plug my magazine!
Mental Realness Mag is a digital publication specifically for black femmes (of any gender identity) navigating mental health. We feature photography, poetry, prose, articles, etc. We’ve just recently published our fourth issue, and I would love if you guys could check it out. I’ve included some of the highlights below and a link to the magazine as well!
(We’re always looking for writers and visual media submissions as well!)
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in her Head by Warsan Shire (2022 poetry)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/02/14/warsan-shires-portraits-of-somalis-in-exile
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Octavia Butler: “[T]he one thing that I and my main characters never do when contemplating the future is give up hope. In fact, the very act of trying to look ahead to discern possibilities and offer warnings is in itself an act of hope.”
A Few Rules For Predicting The Future by Octavia E. Butler
“To be ‘feminist’ in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression.”
-bell hooks, American author, feminist, and social activist
FromAin’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
Rest In Power bell hooks - everyone else, READ bell hooks!!!
Rest In Power bell hooks - everyone else, READ bell hooks!!!
bell hooks, Pathbreaking Black Feminist, Dies at 69
I recently reread “Feminist Theory From Margin To Center”(PDF)and it holds up as a strongly recommended read 37 years later! It came out in 1984. hooks is a brilliant thinker and key figure in the 2nd wave of feminism, I really really really recommend you read her work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_hooks
Gloria Jean Watkins (September 25, 1952 – December 15, 2021), better known by her pen name bell hooks,[1] was an American author, professor, feminist, and social activist. The name “bell hooks” is borrowed from her maternal great-grandmother, Bell Blair Hooks.[2].
The focus of hooks’s writing was the intersectionality of race, capitalism, and gender, and what she described as their ability to produce and perpetuate systems of oppression and class domination. She published more than 30 books and numerous scholarly articles, appeared in documentary films, and participated in public lectures. She addressed race, class, gender, art, history, sexuality, mass media, and feminism. In 2014, she founded the bell hooks Institute at Berea College in Berea, Kentucky.“
