plus bookclub link! An introduction to Da'Shaun L. Harrison's instrumental text, "Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness." audio coming separately.
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.