2Treadsa day ago2 minSaga Boy: Family, Secrets, Loss, and the Search for Self.-All I wanted was a home. For the ground to stop shifting beneath my feet. For something, anything, to stay the same long enough for me t...
2Treads3 days ago2 minQueen of the Conquered-A Needed Exploration of Power and Enslavement🌊Reflections🌊 I have so many thoughts on Sigourney Rose. Callender definitely gave us a new take on a familiar narrative; yes her main ...
2TreadsJan 122 minFamily. Faith. Independence.This is a story that is multi-generational, multi-charactered, and multi-relational with prose that weaves an interconnecting magic that ...
2TreadsJan 112 minThe Half God of Rainfall. Poetry Is Social Commentary.-No. Zeus who is old as stars thinks Earth spins for him, that he is entitled to our bodies. He will never learn. Vengeance is ours- Ella...
2TreadsJan 12 min2020 BEST READS- It was quite the year, but our books helped to get us through.In a year that was defined by a global pandemic, reading offered many of us an escape and we were no different. We read close to 200 book...
2TreadsDec 2, 20202 minPOLAR VORTEX: Desire, Lies, Betrayal?A stunning opening that is drenched in sensuality, charged desire, and the unknown which Mootoo keeps building on throughout her story. I...
2TreadsNov 26, 20202 minJAHAJI: Stories on Belonging and IdentityThe very first story hit me with its all too familiar reality- parents sending their child to be educated at a school that teaches in a w...
2TreadsNov 17, 20202 minBURN IT ALL DOWN- THE BURNING GOD by R. F. KUANG-Let them think of us as dirt, Rin thought. She was dirt. She was dirt. Her army was dirt. But dirt was common, ubiquitous, patient, and ...
2TreadsNov 5, 20201 minTEACHING MY MOTHER HOW TO GIVE BIRTH- WARSAN SHIRE'S POIGNANT, SHARP, PIERCING POEMS."No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark"- Warsan Shire 📜📜📜📜📜 Listening to the author recite these poems, I felt as i...
2TreadsNov 5, 20202 minTHE DRAGON REPUBLIC: Kuang's Epic Fantasy Gets Bigger and Better.… But I've seen how power works. It's not about who you are, it's about how they see you. And once you're mud in this country, you're alw...
2TreadsNov 5, 20202 minTHE SPACE BETWEEN WORLDS. MICAIAH JOHNSON'S TAKE ON A POTENTIAL MULTIVERSE...our dead are only weights on our backs when we won't let them walk beside us, when we try to pretend they are not ours or they are not ...
2TreadsOct 27, 20202 minRing Shout. P. Djeli Clark Continues to Cement the Novella as an Important Storytelling Medium.Ring Shout completely transports and immerses its reader, much like a fantastic full-length novel. Clark spins a certain tapestry with hi...
2TreadsOct 26, 20204 minAn Interview: Jemilla Mills-Smith, Author of Bastet's Legacy.Below, we asked debut and self-published author Jemilla to share her inspiration and process that led to Bastet's legacy. Enjoy! Hi Jemil...
2TreadsOct 25, 20203 minThe Midnight Bargain: Fighting the Patriarchy for AutonomyOnly one of us still gravitates towards Romances and that is not me. So, colour me surprised and delighted to find that this story had a ...
2TreadsOct 13, 20202 minBlack Sun- A New Age Dawns in Fantasy."...They say that my body is cold, but my anger is hot."- Serapio. 🌕🌗🌘 #BlackSun is a story that is being steadily and wonderfully cra...
2TreadsOct 11, 20203 minButter, Honey, Pig, Bread. Family, Trauma, and Healing.Stories that are told from multiple personal perspectives and in different voices have always been favourites. They expand the narrative ...
2TreadsSep 29, 20202 minin nearby bushes- an all too familiar refrain in jamaica.Growing up in Jamaica sounds like the ultimate vacation to a lot of outsiders, and on many levels it most certainly is. But my beautiful ...
2TreadsSep 22, 20202 minGreyboy- Finding Yourself in a World that Loves Labels.-But the lifeline I grabbed onto, the one that dragged me from the swirling cyclone, was authored by mystics who'd plumbed deeper depths ...
2TreadsSep 17, 20202 minLove After the End-Indigiqueer Authors Imagine the Future of Our World."Kinship is a two-sided coin, Nigig. You always gotta ask yourself, who is being excluded here?"- Migizi. 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈�...
2TreadsSep 14, 20202 minbook of the little axe. a historical epic.-We does say it here in Trinidad that 'we is we'-Demas That quote speaks to the held belief that we are all one, that even though we are ...