Thrilled to join Mona Eltahawy in conversation Strand Book Store on May 2nd at 7pm. See you there!

Rest in peace to Faith Ringgold, an artist I’ve loved since childhood, whose work and political advocacy was far ahead of its time. I was lucky enough to write about her incredible retrospective a while back for The New York Review of Books nybooks.com/online/2022/11…

United States of Attica by Faith Ringgold (1972), a map detailing many Indigenous, slave, and immigrant uprisings in each state since the 1700s and dedicated to the men who died during the 1971 Attica prison riots in upstate NY.

The closure of #SmallPressDistribution will continue to have near-disastrous effects on the literary community, presses and readers alike. Read more in this article from Literary Hub, and support your favorite small presses by ordering from them directly! tinyurl.com/y6jxxab7

Please read through this spreadsheet, which currently lists 475 fundraising campaigns for families seeking help and/or evacuation in Gaza. It includes their names, needs, links to their fundraising sites and socials, and what % they've already raised: t.ly/k443n

The line-up. The cause. Bring your bodies & your support. For the Palestine Children's Relief Fund.
I was so honored to be part of the first Writers for Palestine reading at the People's Forum, and am glad to see this next one on the books.

🚨New WAWOG Bulletin is OUT🚨 In this issue, we explore the 'unwavering solidarity' that has always existed between the Black liberation movement and the Palestinian struggle.

We at Graywolf are very concerned about the impact of the collapse of SPD. The small press ecosystem is both delicate and crucial to a healthy literary culture. Please support these presses by donating, buying books from their websites, and recommending them to your community.

Thanks @bookriot for featuring @ericacardwell's WRONG IS NOT MY NAME in this great roundup of new books tinyurl.com/467cb273

'Beautifully weaving together memoir, criticism, and theory, WRONG IS NOT MY NAME: NOTES ON (BLACK) ART is a reflection on Black womanhood, queerness, and the importance of storytelling'

Robyn Smith reviews @ericacardwell's memoir for BUST Magazine tinyurl.com/bdf5ssze

I recorded this interview on the day Erica Cardwell 's Wrong Is Not My Name was released. She talks about art criticism, visuality, Black imagination, grief, + 'anti-memoir'.

TY for the ARC Feminist Press ! + get yourself a copy! The art is stunning!

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ICYMI, you can read an exclusive excerpt from @ericacardwell's WRONG IS NOT MY NAME: NOTES ON (BLACK) ART via our friends at DEBUTIFUL ✨️✨️✨️ tinyurl.com/yp93sxfa

Big congrats to Lamya H on the Lammy nom!!! This is amazing and so well deserved. I'm so thrilled for you 💖

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“Grief will remake life into fiction as you move through it.”

In this essay from her new collection, Erica Cardwell remembers her mother who, had she been an artist, would have been Sharon Jones.

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took a selfie and didn’t realize the conductor was in the background until i heard her say “do it over!” so here is our second take ❤️ (both serving if i do say so myself)

I can’t wait to read your work!

'An astounding work by a singular writer, critic, and artist, and it is a privilege to bear witness to Cardwell’s unconventional journey.'—Robyn Smith for BUST Magazine on the brilliant Erica Cardwell's WRONG IS NOT MY NAME, available everywhere now! buff.ly/4aqi8e8

Come and study with me this summer. Undergrads only. NY based. No fee. bcrw.barnard.edu/projects/femin…

Are people following this witch hunt at Harvard?
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'Beautifully weaving together memoir, criticism, and theory, Wrong Is Not My Name . . . is a reflection on Black womanhood, queerness, and the importance of storytelling.' Read Robyn Smith on Erica Cardwell's WRONG IS NOT MY NAME in BUST Magazine: buff.ly/4aqi8e8