Hello friends!
Sorry for my informality (and also pls excuse any typos I am dyslexic and have nails on rn). No reading for book club tomorrow-- I wanna get caught up on last week since I missed it and I want to ask about our general plans and programming!
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Instead of willing myself to love something that I simply do not, what if I was honest in my self-loathing? What might I be compelled to change if I did not feel morally bound to positivity?
You can only be sexy or inspiring: thoughts on Beauty, the internet, and Megan Thee Stallion + Drake
I have a lot of thoughts about this and so I made my internet friends a little podcast episode :)
Chapter one review of Deborah Gray White's "Ar'n't I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South" with the question: what makes us so attached to Beauty when it was designed to suffocate us?
In which Ismatu Gwendolyn expresses long overdue love and kindness to Fear itself.
you're literally going to get three emails today from me and I am so sorry for that lmao