The following essay appears in Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler. Editors: Alexandra Pierce and Mimi Mondal. Twelfth Planet Press, August 18, 2017. Print and epub. Luminescent Threads received the Locus Award for ‘Non Fiction’ and it was nominated for Hugo, British Fantasy Award, and William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review. Dear […]
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Zora Mai Quynh shares a BIPOC reading list to learn more about the history behind Juneteenth.
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This book list focuses on the Jewish experience in France through the eyes of Jewish memoirs, biographies, and books about French people who sheltered Jews.
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Fall of Saigon: Zora Mai Quynh’s list of top ten books about the Fall of Saigon.
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Many Pulitzer lists leave out the finalists, depriving us of the opportunity to both honor and support great writing. This POC Pulitzer Book List features Winners & Finalists of color for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction from 1917 to the present.
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It should come as no surprise that the movies Split and Glass by M. Night Shyamalan play upon sterotypical and damaging misconceptions of dissociative identity disorder (DID), formerly referred to as multiple personality disorder (MP). Although it may be entertaining to watch James McAvoy struggle through 24 multiple personalities, many of which are distinguished by […]
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Diverse books matter. At the end of the day, the narrative that survives is the one that may become, by default, the story that defines a person, a peoples, an issue, an event, a topic, a civilization for the next generation of readers. This is why conquering nations destroyed the writings and collected stories, mythologies, […]
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