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now say it with me: authors/artists dont owe you moral purity. an author/artist job is not to hold you by the hand & tell you exactly what is Good™ & what is Bad™. you should be able to think for yourself

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A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde (1996) dir. by Ada Gay Griffin and Michelle Parkerson

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In light of the ceasefire agreement, Gaza needs resources now more than ever, and you absolutely should continue donating. Here are some important campaigns:

1. Gaza Funds - provide direct support

2. Life for Gaza - rebuild vital infrastructure

3. Crips for eSims for Gaza - keep Gaza connected

4. The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund - provide medical support for children

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Read in 2023:

I feel like the world wanted to remind me that it loves me, and so it gave me him. It gave me a chance, that possibility he’s always talking about, and I seized it with both hands because I know, and Alim knows, how fucking rare it is for that door to open, even by a crack, and what it’s like when it closes.

YOU MADE A FOOL OF DEATH WITH YOUR BEAUTY by Akwaeke Emezi ★★½

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Osita and Vivek Oji, probably 🫶🏾

@/hisethelcain. twitter, 18 may 2020.

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Title: Pet

Author: Akwaeke Emezi

Series or standalone: series

Publication year: 2019

Genres: fiction, fantasy, LGBT+, magical realism

Blurb: There are no monsters anymore...or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. Jam and her best friend Redemption have grown up with this lesson all their life...but when Jam meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colours and claws who emerges from one of her mother's paintings and a drop of Jam's blood, she must reconsider what she's been told. Pet has come to hunt a monster...and the shadow of something grim lurks in Redemption's house. Jam must fight not only to protect her best friend, but also uncover the truth, and the answer to the question: how do you save the world from monsters if no one will admit they exist?

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i have to get up for my flight in two hours (because my flight from joburg back to the us got delayed twelve hours !!) and instead of sleeping i read all of little rot by akwaeke emezi and i do think that was a fascinating depiction of moral rot from the characters of kalu and ahmed, how someone can find strength (both earned or assumed) in accepting this moral decay better than others from souraya and ola and also ahmed (until he cracks), and the fallacy of choosing how deep you go. i did see that ending coming from a mile away (but that’s not a bad thing!!) and i do wish it had more gay sex but overall excellent (if this sounds vague it’s because it’s too late to think + no spoilers)

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the author's barely disguised longing for a kinder world

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Akwaeke Emezi, from "i was alone beyond measure," Content Warning: Everything

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Kim Addonizio, from What Is This Thing Called Love: Poems; "''Round Midnight,"

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Akwaeke Emezi, from "self-portrait as an angel," Content Warning: Everything

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Akwaeke Emezi, from "confession," Content Warning: Everything

[akwaeke]

Dear Senthuran by Akwaeke Emezi

In three critically acclaimed novels, Akwaeke Emezi has introduced readers to a landscape marked by familial tensions, Igbo belief systems, and a boundless search for what it means to be free. Now, in this extraordinary memoir, the bestselling author of The Death of Vivek Oji reveals the harrowing yet resolute truths of their own life. Through candid, intimate correspondence with friends, lovers, and family, Emezi traces the unfolding of a self and the unforgettable journey of a creative spirit stepping into power in the human world. Their story weaves through transformative decisions about their gender and body, their precipitous path to success as a writer, and the turmoil of relationships on an emotional, romantic, and spiritual plane, culminating in a book that is as tender as it is brutal.

Electrifying and inspiring, animated by the same voracious intelligence that distinguishes Emezi's fiction, Dear Senthuran is a revelatory account of storytelling, self, and survival.

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“You Don’t Know Anything.” And Other Writing Advice From Toni Morrison