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C. Riley Snorton: Interview
“Survival is a relational praxis”C. Riley Snorton interviewed by Noura mutima Brock-Jaber C. Riley Snorton is a professor of English and Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Chicago. He is a cultural theorist focusing on racial, sexual, and transgender histories and cultural productions. He is the author of Nobody Is Supposed to Know:…
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Cheryl Clarke: Interview
“Screaming to Be Out”Cheryl Clarke interviewed by Marci Blackman Cheryl Clarke is one of the organizers since 2013 of the annual Hobart Festival of Women Writers in the Book Village of the Catskills. She is a poet, essayist, and author of six books of poetry, including Targets, her most recent work from Bushel Editions. In…
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Alexis Pauline Gumbs: Interview
“Presence to possibility”Alexis Pauline Gumbs interviewed by Tara M. Holman Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a queer Black feminist writer, scholar, and aspirational favorite cousin to all life, energy, and matter. She is the author of the forthcoming The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde. Her recent books include Undrowned (AK Press, 2020), Dub: Finding Ceremony (Duke…
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Francesca Ekwuyasi: Interview
by Nicole Dennis-Benn Francesca Ekwuyasi’s debut novel, Butter Honey Pig Bread, is an evocative, lyrical tale of three Nigerian women—a mother and her two daughters whose relationship is ripped apart by a terrible event that would take years to overcome. We follow Kambrinichi—the troubled matriarch who believes she is an obanje— a spirit child in…
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Rachel Eliza Griffiths: Interview
Release date: July 2023Promise by Rachel Eliza GriffithsTwo Black sisters growing up in small-town New England fight to protect their home, their bodies, and their dreams as the Civil Rights Movement sweeps the nation in this “magical, magnificent novel” (Marlon James) from “a startlingly fresh voice” (Jacqueline Woodson). The people of Salt Point could indeed be…
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Bridgett Davis: By the Numbers
This interview was conducted by Eisa Nefetari Ulen for Mosaic, and will be included in an upcoming lesson plan on Louise Meriwether’s Daddy was a Number Runner and Bridgett Davis’ The World According to Fannie Davis Few residents of 20th century Black communities grew up without hearing about The Numbers. While 21st century America gets…
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Mitchell S. Jackson: Interview
The average dude is myopic. He sees the hustler on the block or in cruising the boulevard or in the club or in the park, all the time sporting new shiny things, and he becomes covetous. Or else he grows up with hustlers and has that way of life normalized. I guess I had it…
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Cheryl Boyce Taylor: Interview
A Mother’s Duty: An Interview with Caribbean Poet Cheryl Boyce-Taylor by Mercy Tullis-Bukhari Towards the end of a New York summer, I met with poet Cheryl Boyce-Taylor for some conversation about womanhood, motherhood, and poetry. I had known Cheryl for several years. When I entered the poetry world professionally, her name was already floating in…
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Kem Joy Ukwu: Interview
I didn’t envision my stories together as a collection until after I wrote a number of them. I realized that most of my individual stories would fit together as a collection by noticing that my stories had strong emotional components that united them. After this realization, I started submitting my manuscript into contests. I also…
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Shauna Morgan: Interview
Audre Lorde said, “speak the truth as I see it” whether it is pretty or not, painful or not. I’ve been told that I can write dagger poems—words that can be hurtful. So sometimes I am a bit apprehensive about the truth being revealed and how it’s coming through. But at every moment I write…