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All the 2 Stars and DNF's I've Read by Black Authors | #blackwritersmatter

In which Amanda talks about some misses from black authors. An Unkindness of Ghosts: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34381254-an-unkindness-of-ghosts Go Tell It on the Mountain: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18248426-go-tell-it-on-the-mountain Difficult Women: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34403045-difficult-women Jazz: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33295144-jazz Americanah: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18209268-americanah The Collected Autobiographies: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13206.The_Collected_Autobiographies_of_Maya_Angelou Sister Outsider: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32951.Sister_Outsider Ordinary Light: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25852761-ordinary-light Grace: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32332879-grace Triton: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/760636.Triton Photos courtesy of Goodreads goodreads.com/AmandaCenterIntrovertX instagram.com/AmandaCenterIntrovertX http://AmandaCenterIntrovertX.tumblr.com source Related Posts L.K. – […]

All the 3 Star Books I've Read by Black Authors | #blackwritersmatter

In which Amanda tells you about some books by black writers that she liked! The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6437061-the-hundred-thousand-kingdoms A Lesson Before Dying: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5197.A_Lesson_Before_Dying Santa and Pete: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92113.Santa_and_Pete Tar Baby: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11359.Tar_Baby Hottentot Venus: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1022495.Hottentot_Venus Clay’s Ark: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1022044.Clay_s_Ark Gathering of Waters: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11225026-gathering-of-waters Gingerbread: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40812195-gingerbread Playing in the Dark: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37405.Playing_in_the_Dark Roots: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/869210.Roots Photos courtesy of Goodreads goodreads.com/AmandaCenterIntrovertX […]

HI2020 | 3 Books by Black Authors

In which Amanda rereads three books by black authors! Hindsight is 2020 announcement video: https://youtu.be/F9hnoQgJRrU A Lesson Before Dying: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5197.A_Lesson_Before_Dying Americanah: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15796700-americanah Song of Solomon: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11334.Song_of_Solomon Photos courtesy of Goodreads goodreads.com/amandaquotidianbooks instagram.com/amandaquotidianbooks source Related Posts L.K. – I like Brass Oh how i love brass :))) download link for the flp soon available . rate~comment~subscribe […]

Bad writing advice you'll get as a writer | DONT LISTEN!

Today’s video is about bad advice you’ll receive as a writer. The top 10 bad writing advice What’s some bad writing advice that you’ve receive? Support your black book tubers and support your black author tubers because we’re out there and we try so hard just to remain invisible, and I don’t want that for […]

Ari Fitz: Wedge (Web Comic #1) | Black Writers Matter

BLACK AF. QUEER AF. START BLACK HISTORY MONTH RIGHT. I don’t know if you guys know Ari Fitz? She’s one of my favorite youtubers out there and ya’ll deserve to be blessed by her brilliance. She’s real af, damn creative and unapologetically black – basically everything I strive to be. *Read WEDGE for free here: […]

Ross Gay: A Small Needful Fact | Black Writers Matter

Get away [garbled] for what? Every time you see me, you want to mess with me. I’m tired of it. It stops today. Why would you…? Everyone standing here will tell you I didn’t do nothing. I did not sell nothing. Because everytime you see me, you want to harass me. You want to stop […]

Anti-Racist, Anti-TERF, Abolitionist TBR – Read Black Authors ALL YEAR LONG

Read THE END OF POLICING as an ebook for free: The End of Policing Buy recommended books on indiebound: FELIX EVER AFTER: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780062820259 BLACK ON BOTH SIDES: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781517901738 FUTURES OF BLACK RADICALISM: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781784787585 OUR HISTORY IS OUR FUTURE: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781786636720 GROUNDINGS WITH MY BROTHERS: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781788731157 ZAMI: A NEW SPELLING OF MY NAME: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780895941220 THE MOOR’S ACCOUNT: […]

Binyavanga Wainaina: How To Write About Africa [CC] | Black Writers Matter

Read the essay here: https://granta.com/how-to-write-about-africa/ Always use the word ‘Africa’ or ‘Darkness’ or ‘Safari’ in your title. Subtitles may include the words ‘Zanzibar’, ‘Masai’, ‘Zulu’, ‘Zambezi’, ‘Congo’, ‘Nile’, ‘Big’, ‘Sky’, ‘Shadow’, ‘Drum’, ‘Sun’ or ‘Bygone’. Also useful are words such as ‘Guerrillas’, ‘Timeless’, ‘Primordial’ and ‘Tribal’. Note that ‘People’ means Africans who are not black, […]

How to Commit & Hold Yourself Accountable | Black Writers Matter

NO MORE EXCUSES! Now that ya’ll have uploaded your Black TBRs and promised to read more from Black writers in the future, it’s time to actually commit and start holding yourself accountable. In this video, I share my journey on how I got to read more and more from Black writers over the past years […]

Black Writers Matter | eh List | February 27, 2019

As part of our eh List and #OnCivilSociety series, we hosted a discussion about Black Writers Matter, a powerful new anthology of African-Canadian writing, edited by Whitney French. The stories in this collection offer a cross-section of established writers and newcomers to the literary world who tackle contemporary and pressing issues with beautiful, sometimes raw, […]