I could not be more honored to be included in The Audacity’s Emerging Writer Series. Profound thanks to roxane gay for selecting my piece and to Brooke Obie for helping it become its best self. audacity.substack.com/p/hairy-on-the…

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My essay Deep-Rooted is out in Roxane Gay's newsletter, The Audacity, today! ❤❤❤ audacity.substack.com/p/deep-rooted-…

10 Contemporary Caribbean books to read shereads.com/contemporary-c…

"Not Maid in Panama" storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/cd35cb… #StoryMaps via ArcGIS StoryMaps

#SOSCuba

Every time I am asked if I was “surprised” by the protests in Cuba or can “explain their causes”, I recall how long I have struggled w/ my own peers’ willingness to defend, apologize & ignore the reality of Cuba. I answer ⁦uncpress⁩ ⁦Elaine Maisner⁩

Ayiti, by Roxane Gay secondgenstories.com/ayiti-by-roxan…

Amazing read! us.macmillan.com/books/97803746…

How do the stories told about Haiti-as a cursed nation-erase true histories & why? How are stories told by Haitians themselves, particularly by Haitian women, a revolutionary tool? Don't miss today's conversation with Myriam Chancy✨ Audio📻: tinhouse.com/podcast/myriam… Tin House

En Palma Soriano, la Seguridad del Estado impide la entrega de la notificación de la marcha del 20N ow.ly/fjti50Gmprz 👉 La activista Elsa Isaac Reyes es detenida y maltratada por la Policía

#DiarioDeCuba |  Ni su familia ni sus allegados saben cómo está #LuisManuelOteroAlcantara, en huelga de hambre en la prisión de máxima seguridad de Guanajay. mtr.cool/bunefuadjn

Myriam J. A. Chancy : What Storm, What Thunder tinhouse.com/podcast/myriam… via Tin House

QuickThots on #NobelPrizeLiterature Abdulrazak Gurnah is the SIXTH African writer to have won the Nobel Prize in literature. Others include Wole Soyinka, Naguib Mahfouz, Nadine Gordimer, JM Coetzee and Doris Lessing. 1/

"Vodou is central to this work because as Tinsley writes, in its cosmology and community formation, the religion is radically inclusive of creative genders and sexualities." lareviewofbooks.org/article/vodou-… via @lareviewofbooks

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