This week on STPT, Danielle Holland and Bryan Barnett II hold conversation with writer, pleasure activist and filmmaker, Junauda Petrus-Nasah. Centering the conversation on Junauda's The Stars and The Blackness Between Them, they explore the deep potency, possibility and melancholy within adolescence. Junauda shares her experiences in writing with care, compassion and cognizance towards healing before and on the written page. From asking what abolition within oneself actually feels like, to slipping into liminal spaces of queer desire, this weeks episode is dedicated to all of the rest of you pleasure activists. Stay hydrated, rest well, masturbate, and enjoy.
Junuada is a writer, a soul sweetener, runaway witch, and performance artist of Black-Caribbean descent, born and working on unceded Dakota land in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her work centers around wildness, queerness, Black-diasporic-futurism, ancestral healing, sweetness, shimmer and liberation. Her first YA novel, The Stars and The Blackness Between Them received a Coretta Scott King Honor Award. She is the co-founder with Erin Sharkey of Free Black Dirt a Black, experimental healing art collective. She is currently working on her second novel, set in the 90s about a young, Black woman training in circus.
