- 1. LA-Novelist Ottessa Moshfegh's Latest, "Lapvona" is Out Now. Plus, A Peek At Her Fiction Practice ...
- (Books)
- ... in Her Hands, and her latest, Lapvona, out June 23. Here, Moshfegh spills the tea on how her imaginary worlds come to be. Your new novel, Lapvona, is a historical fantasy brimming with magical realism. ...
- Created on 23 June 2022
- 2. Janelle Monae's "The Memory Librarian" Tackles Afrofuturism, Plus a Deep Dive Into Witchcraft, and a Memoir From an Indigenous Pu
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- ... age that resulted in lifelong PTSD—but it is also about the historical trauma that scarred generations of women in her family. According to LaPointe, she once wore her “delinquency with pride, like some ...
- Created on 10 March 2022
- 3. K. Michelle's New Series "My Killer Body With K. Michelle" Explores The Darker Side of Plastic Surge
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- ... desire for a quintessential Black Body aesthetic. Considering the fact that women of color, Black women especially, have been historically stereotyped as oversexualized, fat, or even freakish (i.e. Sarah ...
- Created on 18 February 2022
- 4. Ava DuVernay, Taraji P Henson, Cynthia Erivo And More: 9 Movies & Shows Featuring Black Women You Need to Stream This Black History Month
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- ... a historical figure, a woman who constantly sacrificed herself to save others from the horrors of enslavement. The movie, though it can be tough at times, also has a musical element, which makes it that ...
- Created on 16 February 2022
- 5. "You Truly Assumed" Is a YA Novel That Focuses On The Lives of 3 Young, Black, Muslim Girls In The Aftermath of a Terrorist Attack in Washington D.C. ...
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- ... offering their personal views on what it means to be both Black and Muslim, an intersection historically overlooked by the media. Like many teens, they feel helpless. But blogging allows them, in Sabriya’s ...
- Created on 08 February 2022
- 6. Upcoming Novel "Julia" Will Retell Orwell's "1984," But This Time, Through A Woman's E
- (Books)
- ... literature, which includes the likes of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932) and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 (1953). Try as they might, none of these works escape the limits of their historical ...
- Created on 09 December 2021
- 7. Black Canary Spinoff in the Pipeline with Jurnee Smollett Reprising Role in the DC Films Sequel. Misha Green of Lovecraft Country Set to Write
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- ... for her friend's missing father. Green and Smollett first worked together on Underground, a dramatic series on historical stories of the underground railroad in Antebellum Georgia, which ran for two seasons ...
- Created on 23 August 2021
- 8. "It Does Revenge In A Small Way": Violet Kupersmith On Ghosts, Trauma, And Her New Novel, "Build Your House Around My Bod
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- ... setting really is where I start with the chapter or the idea. So I moved to Da Lat in 2013, because it was historically very haunted and because it has this legacy as this French playground that they built ...
- Created on 09 August 2021
- 9. Vanessa Riley's Historical Novel "Island Queen" Focuses On The Journey, Not The Destination Of Dorothy "Doll" Kirwin Thomas: BUST Rev
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- Island Queen: A Novel By Vanessa Riley (William Morrow) “Tu ikiwa uko huru.” Dorothy “Doll” Kirwin Thomas’ mantra in Vanessa Riley’s historical novel, Island Queen, means, “Only if you’re free, then ...
- Created on 09 July 2021
- 10. 10 Timely, Empowering Books to Read During Women's History Mont
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- ... It dives into the barriers to leadership that have historically been placed in the way of marginalized groups, including women, people of color, and millennials. While the book was originally published ...
- Created on 08 March 2021
- 11. Does "The U.S. vs Billie Holiday" Give Holiday’s Legacy The Justice It Deserves?
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- Creating a good biopic can be a hit or miss. Regardless of the identity of the historical figure or entertainer, capturing the complexities of a person’s entire existence can be quite a daunting task ...
- Created on 04 March 2021
- 12. Kristin Hannah Gives Steinbeck A Run For His Money With Her Latest Novel, "The Four Winds
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- If you’ve ever yearned for a healthy dose of feminism in your high school English class unit on The Grapes of Wrath, consider your wishes granted. Kristin Hannah’s new novel, The Four Winds, reads like ...
- Created on 11 February 2021
- 13. Does Your Favorite Lesbian Film Pass This Test?
- (Movies)
- ... have kept compromising in these films? Historically, lesbian cinema refuses to give its audience a happy ending or a storyline not hinged on sexuality. And do we need so many corsets and bonnets? In ...
- Created on 05 February 2021
- 14. "The Office of Historical Corrections" Is A Beautifully Honest Collection of Novellas ...
- (Books)
- ... every contemporary American fiction syllabus, and with The Office of Historical Corrections, readers now have a wealth of selections to choose from. Those excited about writers who tell the truth about ...
- Created on 09 November 2020
- 15. 5 New Mysteries By Women That Will Spook You This Halloween Season
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- ... master of language, and the unexpected twists in Goodnight Beautiful are electric. When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole Alyssa Cole writes across a number of genres such as sci-fi, romance, historical ...
- Created on 23 October 2020
- 16. Week Of Women: BLACKPINK, Emily in Paris, Save Yourselves!
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- ... nonfiction, and historical fiction in Witch Hunt, a story about witch hunts throughout history and how the archetype of the witch has changed over time. Out now. Earthlings: A Novel by Sayaka Murata ...
- Created on 01 October 2020
- 17. We Know The Schuyler Sisters — Now, Meet The Other Real-Life Women Behind "Hamilton
- (Movies)
- ... of the movie on Disney+ caused a resurgence in looking into the backgrounds of the historical figures depicted in the Lin-Manuel Miranda-penned production, from analyses of how the play romanticizes the ...
- Created on 10 July 2020
- 18. Explore More Black Women's History While Staying Fit With GirlTrek ...
- (Living)
- ... friends, T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Garrison. As of June 1, 2020, GirlTrek started its first 21-day Black History Bootcamp, where participants can learn more about essential Black historical figures. ...
- Created on 16 June 2020
- 19. 12 Books By Black Women Authors To Add To Your To-Read List
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- ... one can feel within it. –Molly Horan She Would Be King: A Novel by Wayétu Moore Wayétu Moore skillfully blends historical fiction with magical realism in this immersive interpretation of Liberia’s ...
- Created on 12 June 2020
- 20. Issa Rae Talks Fame, Feminism, And “Insecure” Season Four: BUST Interview
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- ... who celebrated her 35th birthday with a blowout party in January, grew up primarily in View Park, a historically Black area in the hills of South L.A. sandwiched between Baldwin Hills and Leimert Park, ...
- Created on 10 April 2020
