Super Sad Black Girl - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Super Sad Black Girl write by Diamond Sharp. This book was released on 2022-12-13. Super Sad Black Girl available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Diamond Sharp’s Super Sad Black Girl is a love letter to her hometown of Chicago, where her speaker finds solace and community with her literary idols in the hopes of answering the question: What does it look like when Black women are free? Lorraine Hansberry and Gwendolyn Brooks appear throughout, counseling the speaker as she navigates her own depression and exploratory questions about the “Other Side,” as do Sandra Bland, Rekia Boyd, and other Black women who have been murdered by police violence. Sharp’s poetry is self-assured, playful, and imaginative, reminiscent of Langston Hughes with its precision and brevity. The book explores purgatorial, in-between spaces that the speaker occupies, as she struggles to find a place, a time, where she can live safely and freely. With her skillful use of repetition, particularly with her series of concrete poems, lines and voices echo across the book so the reader, too, feels suspended within Sharp’s lyric moments. Super Sad Black Girl is a compassionate and ethereal depiction of mental illness from a promising and powerful poet.
Sad Black Girl
Sad Black Girl - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sad Black Girl write by Harmony Edosomwan. This book was released on 2019-04-16. Sad Black Girl available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sad Black Girl (SBG) is a collection of poetry, art,tips,and activities that explores the difficulties of dealing with mental illness. Sad Black Girl was first created as an outlet for the author, Harmony Edosomwan, to discuss her struggles with depression, but through time, the purpose of SBG has shifted. It is not only an outlet for the author herself, but can be used as a space for others to release and learn. Society tells Black girls that we aren't allowed to feel. When we do try, we are barraged with a number of stereotypes, insults, and apathy. But here, in the world of Sad Black Girl, we can feel. There is no judgement here. No stereotypes. No expectations. You can let everything out, without holding back. This a safe space filled with unconditional love and support. Sad Black Girl can't cover every sad black girl's experiences, because sad black girls aren't monolithic. However, this collection of poetry and art is for sad black girls,by fellow sad black girls/femmes. With the rising rates of suicide among Black youth it is imperative for Black and Brown communities to break from the stigma of mental illness. It's time for society as a whole to destigmatize mental illness. There are ways to deal with and understand your inner pains and traumas. This book doesn't contain answers, but it is real and raw, and folks will be able to gain tips from people who are are "going through it" as well. This book is intended for Black and Brown audiences, but has since been accepted by a variety of other communities as well. Everyone and anyone can gain and learn from Sad Black Girl.
A Black Girl's Tears (The Poetry)
A Black Girl's Tears (The Poetry) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Black Girl's Tears (The Poetry) write by DeShon E. Rowland. This book was released on 2014-07-25. A Black Girl's Tears (The Poetry) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A black girls tears are poems that take you on my journey of heartbreak, hope, family, and love. When you first see the title Im sure you assume that this book is full of sad poems; but I've learned that tears are a form of strength in many ways. If the sun shined all the time nothing could grow; things would burn up and there would be no harvest. Tears are like the rain; they help to cleanse and come in many forms. They can derive from joy, pain, confusion, frustration, happiness and LIFE. This is a collection of my thoughts, my heart, my faith, and my voice. I hope when you read this you are able to connect to some of the things I have gone through. What I hope more than anything; is that the message Im trying to convey reaches you, and that message is love. At the end of the day love is all that matters and I will always believe in the power of true love. I feel I was created to share these words, and I've been waiting my entire life for this. The tears that this black girl has cried have brought me to this moment; I hope you enjoy.
O Body
O Body - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook O Body write by Dan “Sully” Sullivan. This book was released on 2024-02-06. O Body available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of moving and tender poems that delves into questions of masculinity, fatherhood, home, and learning to live in and love one’s own body. In his second full-length poetry collection, Chicago-born poet Dan “Sully” Sullivan considers the male body—its momentum and privilege when moving through the world, but also its softness and vulnerability. As the poems unfold and questions unravel, the book challenges wider social systems that uphold patriarchal notions of masculinity, seeking to achieve a new register of compassion, of self-love. O Body is also a migration narrative, navigating the physical distances between cities—the speaker’s movement between Chicago and his new home in Bloomington—and beyond that, the expansive, immeasurable distances within the self. Cityscapes come alive on the page and relationships bloom and deepen as Sully explores love, fatherhood, and family; here, traditional assumptions regarding masculinity and beauty are called into question through the speaker’s tenderhearted wondering. As more and more people awaken to the realization that the patriarchy oppresses people of all genders, Sully’s work in O Body offers a much-needed narrative of that shifting perspective. This deeply self-aware and big-hearted book holds space for reflecting on one’s physical body and interiority: the complex relationship between the two as well as their intricate and often fraught connections to the wider community and the places we call home.
When the Black Girl Sings
When the Black Girl Sings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook When the Black Girl Sings write by Bil Wright. This book was released on 2009-04-07. When the Black Girl Sings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this moving young adult novel, acclaimed author Bil Wright tells the story of one girl’s search to find a home where she truly belongs. Lahni Schuler is the only black student at her private prep school. She’s also the adopted child of two loving, but white, parents who are on the road to divorce. Struggling to comfort her mother and angry with her dad, Lahni feels more and more alone. But when Lahni and her mother attend a local church one Sunday, Lahni hears the amazing gospel choir, and her life takes an unexpected turn. It so happens that one of Lahni’s teachers, Mr. Faringhelli, has nominated her for a talent competition, and she is expected to perform a song in front of the whole school. Lahni decides to join the church choir to help her become a better singer. But what starts out as a way to practice singing becomes a place of belonging and a means for Lahni to discover her own identity.
