Ask the Author: Tamura Lomax
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Tamura Lomax
Good writers are like artists...you get to paint whole new worlds through ideas...
Tamura Lomax
I pause. Watch ratchet (reality TV). I walk. I sleep...or something else mindless. After resting I'm typically inspired. Sometimes it means I need to slow down and read, however.
Tamura Lomax
Read a lot. Then..."Write a lot and hit the streets. A writer who doesn't keep up with what's out there ain't gonna be out there.” ― Toni Cade Bambara
Tamura Lomax
I'm working on a new book titled, Raising Non-Toxic Son's in White Supremacist America.
Tamura Lomax
I got inspired to write the more I read. I enveloped myself in research and writings about race, gender, sexuality, etc. The more I read, the more inspired I got.
Tamura Lomax
It came over time...through experiences. It's about Jezebel the stereotype and the biblical figure and how they merge onto black women's bodies. I think my first thoughts on this project came about when I realized I was racialized and gendered, or really, that I was a black woman. We don't come into this world knowing that. There's typically an encounter with racism or sexism first.
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