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“Without intentional efforts to combat old ways and norms, ... institutions ... reproduce dominant social ideas, hierarchies, and systems of oppression.”
― Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
― Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”
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“Your crown has been bought and paid for. Put it on your head and wear it.”
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“Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?”
― Red Sorghum
― Red Sorghum
“For Black girls, to be "ghetto" represents a certain resilience to how poverty has shaped racial and gender oppression. To be "loud" it to demand to be heard. To have an "attitude" is to reject a doctrine of invisibility and maltreatment. To be flamboyant--or "fabulous"--is to revise the idea that socioeconomic isolation is equated with not having access to materially desirable things. To be a ghetto Black girl, then, is to reinvent what it means to be Black, poor, and female.”
― Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
― Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
2013 Clutch Reading Challenge
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A place to discuss Clutch Magazine's crowd-sourced 2013 list of 100 books by black women writers that everyone should read. ...more
Literary Fiction by People of Color
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This can include genre fiction that is literary (e.g. speculative fiction, historical fiction, etc.), as long as it's written by a person of color (Af ...more
July Summer Readalong - Sag Harbor
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This is a group to discuss Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
26a - Diana Evans Readalong
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Discussing 26a by Diana Evans in honor of Black History Month UK
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