Huge thanks to Esquire & Neil Talking Scared Podcast for including THE BLACK GIRL SURVIVES IN THIS ONE edited by me & Desiree S. Evans on this Best of Horror list so far! esquire.com/entertainment/…

USC Cancels Graduation Speech by Muslim Student democracynow.org/2024/4/16/head…

US Supreme Court rejects Black Lives Matter activist's appeal over protest incident reuters.com/world/us/us-su…

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NEW EPISODE

We're a horror choir this week - for a roundtable conversation about the THE BLACK GIRL SURVIVES IN THIS ONE.

On HIATUS, Buy Black Girl Survives in this One, Desiree S. Evans, Eden Royce ~ pre-order THE CREEPENING & Monica Brashears come to talk about Black women and the monsters they fight.

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Louisiana is not for the faint of heart.

It’s actually a GOOD think we still have subculture’s like the Gulla Geechee and Gulf Coast Creoles still running around to this day. The U.S. as a project is dedicated to destroying cultures left and right, WHY are people doing the work of erasing that? FOR FREE no less

I know it seems obvious, but in today's day I really think everything has to be clearly spelled out, and for some reason it is not mentioned in this article—but Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi are the Blackest states in the U.S.

Until you've had people threaten death against you, your family, and your career for what you've written for the public, you really have no idea what it means to do this work.

We cannot decontextualize USC’s virulently Islamophobic action against their Muslim valedictorian - by cancelling her speech - from the UC Berkeley professor assaulting a Muslim law student protestor at a law school event just days ago.

And both are Muslim women who wear hijab.

It is most important to note that the three states are Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. Like the Dobbs decision, and others before it, the way the South invents means for maintaining order continues to set the foundational precedents for fascist repression across the country

Reflection, Pirates Alley, New Orleans

Hey uh what the fuck is this

When I say I am Appalachian, I mean my mom passionately and completely believed you could cure a wart by stealing a neighbor’s dishrag and throwing it out a car window at a fork in the road. My dad’s HS mascot was the Wampus Cat.

What cultural weirdness did your parents believe?

In the 18 years since Katrina, Louisiana’s southernmost territories had started to hollow out, steadily accelerating their quiet migration northward as Louisianans fled their coast.

It is, indeed, the next great migration already well underway. propublica.org/article/climat…

Cowriting: the ultimate group project! I will be moderating the “Better Together” session at #TxLA24 with Desiree S. Evans, On HIATUS, Buy Black Girl Survives in this One, David Bowles, Guadalupe Garcia McCall, & @lexiunderwood — join us for a discussion on how they worked together to create their books! TASL

On Tuesday you can hear the roundtable conversation about the brand new anthology, THE BLACK GIRL SURVIVES IN THIS ONE - with editors On HIATUS, Buy Black Girl Survives in this One & Desiree S. Evans, and contributors Monica Brashears & Eden Royce ~ pre-order THE CREEPENING

We talk representation, comedy and urban legends. It's fun!

“Images imprinted on the brain, lingering there, as shots linger, comfortable and languid, caressing the viewer… I am infused with a warm and delightful melancholy. I see Blackness in all its color.”

— Kasi Lemons on Raven Jackson’s ALL DIRT ROADS TASTE OF SALT

In the wake of the Civil War, Black people throughout the South founded autonomous communities. Today many of those freetowns are gone. And the ones that are left are fighting for their survival.

So happy to publish this story in The Guardian.

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Faith Ringgold, 1938-2024

The United States of Attica, 1972. My fourth grade teacher got me a book of her work and was fundamental in seeing and setting me on the path of pursuing visual art. Her work, especially for children, unlocks a sense of possibility, that they can do it.