Literature
No More White Girl Tales: “Mean” Reimagines Memoirs for Women of Color
Myriam Gurba’s criticism of white America’s racial myopia couldn’t be better timed.
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We’re Still Here: Debbie Reese On Native People Telling Their Own Stories
Knowing one’s community also means intimate knowledge of issues that impact us.
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BitchReads: 13 Books You Must Read in October
YA, a short story collection, and even a novel about hurricanes is on this list.
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Degrees of Wokeness: Race and Otherness in Jane Eyre
There’s an implicit assumption among book lovers that the love of a story is pure and unsullied, that it stands apart from the material mandates of history.
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Writing Between Resistance and Celebration: Two Black South African Poets On Writing, Urgency, And Changing Minds
It’s an interesting time to be a young poet in South Africa right now.
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And the Cultural Appropriation Prize Goes to...White Writers
When a white editor proposed an “appropriation prize,” other white editors launched a real and very public campaign to fund it.
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20 years of Harry Potter: The Bitch Crew Remembers Their First Time at Hogwarts
Happy birthday, Harry Potter!
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BitchReads: 13 Books You Should Read In July
There’s a memoir that’s funny as hell, a deep dive into an iconic comic book character, and even a fantasy.
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