#black l

Oh what it’s like to be a black woman🔮💕💕 it’s majick in heart and music in her soul! The way she speaks it’s as though her words were healing another’s soul 💓. To see her was to know God was indeed a woman 🧞‍♀️

Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World is now available for pre-order!

You can pre-order on Amazon, of course, but the University of Pennsylvania Press is also having a 40% off spring sale with code SPRING20-FM RIGHT NOW and #WickedFlesh is listed (though no cover or description yet).

This discount is deeper than the Amazon one. Plus you get the chance to browse amazing books from spring authors and fellow listmates like Brandon Byrd and Chris Bonner.

And if you haven’t already, you might as well also snatch up books by Sasha Turner, Marisa Fuentes, Jennifer Morgan, Herman Bennett, Kellie Carter Jackson, Keisha Blaine, Randy Browne, and so many others. It’s an early Americanist Christmas in April–and we need it!

It seems like a small thing with a global pandemic happening right now, but if you’ve the means and/or enjoy reading, please do support the books being published this spring and summer. For the authors, it’s a bit of good news in the midst of a lot of chaos, but I suspect that many of us have or will lose opportunities to meet you readers in person, read work in the communities we wrote the books for, and otherwise build with you. And that goes for academics, but also poets, fiction writers, essayists–anyone engaged in the printed word. Plus with so much in crisis, book releases feel a little bittersweet.

That said, in whatever new world is rising, I know we will need historians, storytellers, writers, researchers, and books. We will need books. We will NEED books.

Pre-order #WickedFlesh today by visiting the Penn Press website: https://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/16139.html

Or on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0812252381/

And for a list of other things to read, Ruha Benjamin, in a beautiful act of generosity and sisterhood, is curating a thread on her Twitter account of recently and soon-to-be released books that have fallen into the pandemic publishing black hole.

Have you published a book in the last few months or one that’s coming out soon? Please share the cover & link below! #pandemicpublishing pic.twitter.com/ZKAhmObaEu

— Ruha Benjamin (@ruha9) April 24, 2020

I need to watch the Netflix Death Note movie.

I was completely intending to just ignore it forever. I already knew it was going to be bad when I heard of "Light Turner." I saw the two-minute clip of Light meeting Ryuk and freaking out, and I hated it. I have read many articles and posts analyzing just how fucked up it is that they completely changed Light's character and made him just another dumb white fuckboy. A friend of mine who watched it just because she's a huge Death Note fan and felt she had to give it a chance told me she fucking hated the movie and regretted watching it. She was even mad that L didn't have all his autistic quirks from the anime. So yeah, I wasn't going to see it.

I'm still not even going to "give it a chance." I'll go into this movie already hating it, expecting it to be garbage. I know it's a piece of garbage.

No, I need to watch this movie for one reason, and that one reason alone. I want to support Keith Stanfield, the actor portraying L.

I keep seeing racist piss babies making disgusting hateful comments about L being black, calling him racial slurs, and insisting this is somehow reverse racism or some stupid shit, and it's pissing me the fuck off. I will watch this awful garbage movie, and I will love this L, no matter what, just to fucking spite these worthless racist nobodies.