The My-Stery: We Must Value Our Own Stuff Even in the Face of Doom

During the past few week after witnessing the no indictments of Darren Wilson,for the killing of Mike Brown and Daniel Pantaleo for the killing of Eric Garner, in addition to the numerous cases of police violence, brutality and negligence acted upon black people before and after the two incidents, I have wondered how do we […]

Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth: Kyla Marshell and Jason Parham

After reading Ebony’s “7 Black Writers You Should Know,” I wanted to highlight a couple of them in a post. Besides technology reporter Jenna Wortham and her Girl Crush Zine, and Uzoamaka Maduka attempt to revilitalize the American literary magazine with The American Reader. the two writers that stood out to me were Kyla Marshell and […]

Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth: Bloodchild

I just finished reading Octavia Butler’s Bloodchild and Other Stories and I want to highlight a passage from her essay “Positive Obsession:” …what good is science fiction to Black people? What good is any form of literature to black people? What good is science fiction’s thinking about the present, the future and the past? What […]