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A Phoenix Must First Burn: A new Sci-Fi & Fantasy anthology puts the spotlight on Black Girls and Gender Nonconforming Teens  👑

According to its subtitle, A Phoenix First Must Burn collects “16 stories of Black Girl Magic, resistance, and hope.” The book is a first for editor Caldwell, who joins 15 other prominent authors of color in the collection. The pool of contributors includes previously published and award-winning authors, as well as writers making their print debuts.A Phoenix First Must Burn is composed by:

Elizabeth Acevedo, National Book Award-winning author of The Poet X

Amerie

Patrice Caldwell

Dhonielle Clayton, author of The Belles

Jalissa Corrie

Somaiya Daud, author of Mirage

Charlotte Nicole Davis, author of The Good Luck Girls

Alaya Dawn Johnson, author of The Summer Prince

Justina Ireland, author of Dread Nation

Danny Lore, author of Queen of Bad Dreams

L.L. McKinney, author of A Blade So Black

Danielle Paige, author of Dorothy Must Die

Rebecca Roanhorse, author of Trail of Lightning

Karen Strong, author of Just South of Home

Ashley Woodfolk, author of The Beauty That Remains

Ibi Zoboi, author of Pride

FIRST STATE TO COMPENSATE EUGENICS VICTIMS

[Image: A picture of a Black woman with some gray hair, seated, hands together holding a pen as she wipes her eye.]

YOU NEED TO APPLY

THERE IS AN INCREDIBLY SMALL AMOUNT OF APPLICANTS AND THE DEADLINE IS IN JUNE

                       !!!!!!!!! BREAKING NEWS !!!!!!!!!!

The Tennessee Supreme Court ruled former sex slave Cyntoia Brown MUST serve 51 years in prison before she is eligible for parole.

According to them:

“In today’s unanimous decision, the Tennessee Supreme Court explained that, under state law, a life sentence is a determinate sentence of 60 years,” the court wrote. “However, the sixty-year sentence can be reduced by up to 15 percent, or 9 years, by earning various sentence credits (good behavior. & getting involved in prison based education programs while incarcerated) Therefore, the Supreme Court concluded that a defendant serving a life sentence for a first-degree murder committed on or after July 1, 1995, may be eligible for release after serving at least 51 years of the sentence.“

For those of you who haven’t yet caught up to this story:

Cyntoia Brown was a 16 yr old girl, who at the time of the incident was living in a room at a Nashville InTown Suites with Allen (the man who propositioned her for sex) because her pimp and boyfriend Garion McGlothen, nick-named “Kut Throat,” insisted that she needed to earn money.

Kut Throat abused her physically and sexually throughout the approximately three week period in which she lived with him.

After Allen took her to his house, he showed Cyntoia multiple guns, including shotguns and rifles. Later in bed, as she described in court, he grabbed her violently by the genitals, his demeanor became threatening and, fearing for her life, she took a gun out of her purse and shot him.

IF YOU WANT TO HELP:

You can sign this petition 

Call Governor Bill Haslam (615)-741-2001. she has a Clemency hearing May 23rd. DEMAND JUSTICE!!

A Walk Through Art History

I designed these shoes with a unique goal in mind: to create a shoe as a summation of an entire culture’s art. Each shoe possesses design qualities, color palettes, and designs only found in the respective culture. This project allowed me to investigate art historical cultures in a special way by challenging myself to translate an entire style (or series of styles) onto a single object.

Conveniently, I was able to use these designs as the concentration section of my AP Studio Art portfolio and received a score of a 5! 

Meanwhile, here’s what majority of actual Gazans living in an open-air prison feel about antijewish sentiments (they were asked if they hate Jews)

What’s that????

That’s tea