Vanessa and Alyssa discuss Multiply/Divide: On the American Real and Surreal by Wendy S. Walters (Sarabande Books).
CN: Racism (anti-Black), enslavement, classicism, gentrification, Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Sandy, violence (gang, gun, police), death
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Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward (Simon & Schuster)
CN (so far): Racism (anti-Black, including use of slurs), enslavement, Jim Crow, murder, violence, spousal abuse, drug use (mostly meth and prescription drugs), child neglect, abandonment, incarceration, terminal illness (cancer), animal death
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Milkweed Editions)
CN: Anti-Asian racism
The All-Consuming World by Cassandra Khaw (Erewhon Books)
CN: Death, suicide, violence (including gun violence), gore, medical trauma, manipulation and gaslighting, graphic language
We Won't Move: A Living Archive
"A Cyborg Manifesto" by Donna Haraway
“Why Don’t American Schools Value Creativity?” by Erin Crosby-Eckstine (Catapult)
CN: Mention of emotional abuse in an intimate partner relationship, anti-Black racism, institutional oppression
Imani Barbarin (Crutches&Spice)
“Starting Testosterone During Ramadan Led Me to the Sacred in My Trans Self” by Zeyn Joukhadar (Catapult)
