My dilemma, and that of other Chicana and women-of-color writers, is twofold: how to write (produce) without being inscribed (reproduced) in the dominant white structure and how to write without rein scribing and reproducing what we rebel against. Our task is to write against the edict that women should fear their own darkness, that we not broach it in our writings...Our task is to light up the darkness.

Best book club ever! Octavia Butler is on my book stack this fall through and through. Just starting Kindred.

Loved the West African cosmology in this scifi book that made me feel all some kind of way about power, colonialism and how that plays out in interpersonal relationships and feelings about ourselves. I couldn't put it down. Next up Kindred...

Intimate reading on race in this moment in the United States. #sayhername #blacklivesmatter #diversebooks

Essential reading in U.S. History about the Puerto Rican community.

A study of political biography. One of three manuscripts C.L.R. James brought with him to England.

"...all History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world. 'Progress' affects few. Only revolution can affect many."

Picked this up when Doris recently passed. A brilliant book about subverting fences in the age of border build-up. It was both a lesson in courage and a reminder of how powerful it is to remember stories as a living force and to retell them again and again.