uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i just be readin shit and going "ok I'll incorporate that into my truth system". Two books that means a lot to me for different reasons are:

The Last Girl Scout by @natalieironside (Post-Apoc trans women killing nazi vampires)

Wrath Goddess Sing by Maya Deane (Achillies is transfemme and the book is a spell)

What I've been reading lately:

Vengeance Feminism by Kali Gross (Current. Non-Fiction/History, Black women using violence to protect themselves/their honor)

All The Black Girls Are Activists by ebonyjanice (Non-Fiction - Fourth-Wave Womanism and Theology. Another poetry compilation from this will come out eventually)

All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson (Non-Fiction - A "memoir manifesto" by a Black enby)

Ovide Mercredi is many things, but a terrorist isn't one of them. A lawyer, poet and member of the Order of Canada, he's an accomplished Cree leader who spent two terms leading the Assembly of First Nations in the 1990s. And yet, sitting inside his Winnipeg living room flipping through a hefty stack of formerly secret intelligence files, Mercredi is compelled to set the record straight. "I don't appreciate being called an extreme Native," the former national chief says emphatically, "because I'm not a terrorist." Yet there he is, in black and white — named in a secret 1997 domestic counterterrorism report from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), which lists Mercredi's call for a national day of protest against federal policy inaction as "Native extremism."

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I am looking for some kind of job to provide for myself but I made a kofi if you have an interest in helping me. *stings you*