No one: … Nobody at all: …. Absolutely no one in the world: …. ME: Are y’all tired of me reading and writing about books with characters of color? Do you roll your eyes at all my remarks about white people, especially my comments about white women? Do you think I’m always thinking too much… Continue reading Me pulling the race card
It’s Domestic Violence Awareness Month, or the term I like to use more in my place of work, Relationship Violence Awareness Month (because I work with a population that just doesn’t fit the definition, legal or stereotypical, of domestic violence where heterosexual people are/were married, live/lived together, and/or have kids together. What about regular folks… Continue reading 3 Reasons to Swipe Right on The Right Swipe
It’s Hispanic Heritage Month and I read Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia just as it kicked off. It was a great book for the occasion. I was taken on a journey through Mexico and learned some Mexican mythology. I really don’t know what else to say about this book. I mean, it… Continue reading Love Doesn’t Always Make the World Go ‘Round
Is it weird that when I was listening to With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo, I feel like I was tasting mangoes the whole time? I think it’s because of the author’s voice and how it just has that poetic twang that I can just imagine her gently chastising people for eating mangoes… Continue reading I don’t even like mangoes…
You know what was a global tragedy that people barely talked about? The kidnapping of the Chibok schoolgirls in Nigeria. How did we let hundreds of children be taken from school and held captive for years and doing nothing to return them to their families safe? How did many people in the world not even… Continue reading Bring back our girls
Quitting books is something I normally don’t like to do. I don’t want to give up on them, just like I wouldn’t want someone giving up on me. I tend to have great expectations (get it? Because that’s a white canon classic novel by Charles Dickens?? I crack myself up) and then they are subsequently… Continue reading On quitting books for self-care
Lately, I feel like my posts have been about nothing. I don’t know why, but it feels as if I have just been writing about anything and nothing of importance. I don’t feel funny and I don’t feel deep and I don’t feel like I’m creating content that motivates people to change the world. I… Continue reading Finding the light
