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We cannot avoid our grief and be free. Sr. Poetry Editor @raisingmothers - Founder @blackmermaids 🎬 Grief is the Glitch (2022)

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Book Cover for: She Is Weeping: An Intellectual History of Racialized Slavery and Emotions in the Atlantic World, Dannelle Gutarra Cordero

She Is Weeping: An Intellectual History of Racialized Slavery and Emotions in the Atlantic World

Dannelle Gutarra Cordero
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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
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Book Cover for: To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War, Tera W. Hunter

To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War

Tera W. Hunter
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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
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Book Cover for: Black Girl in Paris, Shay Youngblood

Black Girl in Paris

Shay Youngblood
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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
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Book Cover for: The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison
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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
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Book Cover for: The Salt Eaters, Toni Cade Bambara

The Salt Eaters

Toni Cade Bambara
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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
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Book Cover for: River Hymns, Tyree Daye

River Hymns

Tyree Daye
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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
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Book Cover for: Passion, June Jordan

Passion

June Jordan
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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
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Book Cover for: The Healing, Gayl Jones

The Healing

Gayl Jones
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@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
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Book Cover for: The Political Body: Stories on Art, Feminism, and Emancipation in Latin America Volume 6, Andrea Giunta

The Political Body: Stories on Art, Feminism, and Emancipation in Latin America Volume 6

Andrea Giunta
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*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
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Book Cover for: Deep Sightings & Rescue Missions: Fiction, Essays, and Conversations, Toni Cade Bambara

Deep Sightings & Rescue Missions: Fiction, Essays, and Conversations

Toni Cade Bambara
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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
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