Pilate's Earring Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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We cannot avoid our grief and be free. Sr. Poetry Editor @raisingmothers - Founder @blackmermaids 🎬 Grief is the Glitch (2022)

She Is Weeping: An Intellectual History of Racialized Slavery and Emotions in the Atlantic World
Dannelle Gutarra Cordero
My tbr pile on Black feeling, emotion, and expression. She Is Weeping... - Dannelle Gutarra Cordero Notes From The Laughing Barrel - A'Driane Nieves https://t.co/cgjzM2pLFg Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression - Tina Post Feelin... - Bettina Judd @bettinajudd https://t.co/iC3lWo3LbP
Hardcover, 2022
$44.99$22.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War
Tera W. Hunter
I was the featured artist at Nyeusi Gallery today! These prints and neon light are from my "My Cape is Hanging Somewhere in a Museum" series. I read about a formerly enslaved Black woman saying "answering bells is played out" in To Joy My Freedom by @TeraWHunter. https://t.co/NwK2ltToCZ
Paperback, 1998
$31.00$15.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Black Girl in Paris
Shay Youngblood
Black Girl in Paris (Film based on the novel by Shay Youngblood) https://t.co/nREYFkKLhi https://t.co/TsWd8pdfX0
Paperback, 2013
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison & Gloria Naylor conversation (ty @lex_kenney 4 the rec.) GN on The Bluest Eye:"It said to a young poet struggling to break into prose, that the barriers were flexible; at the core of all is language &if you're skilled enough w/that, you can create ur own genre" (1/) https://t.co/LB13SukFre
Paperback, 2007
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Salt Eaters
Toni Cade Bambara
Carrie Mae Weems: "The work really teaches you about who you are [...] and part of the process is catching up with yourself." Toni Cade Bambara: "I am still catching up to the wisdom of that book [The Salt Eaters]."
Paperback, 1992
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
River Hymns
Tyree Daye
Today's book is River Hymns by @TyreeDaye. Grief flows through these purple poems. They are tributaries of loss. Both beautiful and brutal. #TheSealeyChallenge https://t.co/wMd87UN3P0
Paperback, 2017
$15.00$7.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Passion
June Jordan
June Jordan's epigraph from Passion (1980): "Dedicated to Everybody as scared as I used to be."
Paperback, 2021
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Healing
Gayl Jones
@arriwrites I'm reading The Healing by Gayl Jones and as far as I can tell, the dialogue is without quotation marks. And I'm like, first of all, I like the way it looks. Second all, I am not confused by the flow of the conversation. I am going to try it with some things I'm working on now.
Paperback, 2019
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Political Body: Stories on Art, Feminism, and Emancipation in Latin America Volume 6
Andrea Giunta
*A survivor finds salvation in a kitchen salon.* The latest essay published for @RaisingMothers The Political Body column is "Fashioned to Survive" by Starr Davis @_starrdavis https://t.co/gJAlFaagwr
Hardcover, 2023
$50.00$25.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Deep Sightings & Rescue Missions: Fiction, Essays, and Conversations
Toni Cade Bambara
Carrie Mae Weems interview with Phyllis Hollis of Cerebral Women Podcast, 2020 Toni Cade Bambara interview with Louis Massiah "How She Came By Her Name" in Deep Sightings & Rescue Missions
Paperback, 1999
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book