Wash Day Diaries by Jamila Rowser and Robyn Smith is a low-key but enrapturing graphic novel about Nisha, Davene, Kim, and Cookie, a group of Black women with deep and caring friendships. Each story lovingly depicts their hair care rituals while also revealing the soulful mundanity of the processes they engage in to care for themselves and others. Wash Day Diaries is as much about the relationship between the beauty rituals of these women and … Continue reading Wash Day Diaries by Jamila Rowser and Robyn Smith →
TAKE COVER. THE SQUEE CANNON IS SET TO KNOCK OUT LEVEL 7.8, WHICH IS JUST ABOVE LEVEL 7 WHEREIN LL COOL J’S MAMA DEMANDS THAT YOU BE KNOCKED OUT. Seriously, I could not have enjoyed this book more, and the first book as well. I heard about it when several readers and reviewers I follow on Twitter were exclaiming about it (and of course I can’t find that conversation now, dang it, so apologies that I can’t … Continue reading The Undoing by Shelly Laurenston →
Note: This giveaway was planned before the horrible attacks on Paris on 13 November, but I think celebrating Laura Bradbury’s love of France is a way of honoring what so many people have found when they’ve gone abroad. Travel makes the world much smaller, and turns every person we meet into potential friends, and strangers into people we care about across great distances. Paris, nous sommes tellement désolé. Last year, and again this year, I met author Laura Bradbury at the Surrey … Continue reading Giveaway: Grape Escapes, Memoirs, and a Market Basket →
We all had an absolute blast at RT 2015, in part because it was the first time all of us were in the same physical location. Each of us have different parts we liked best, so here are our Favorite Things We Loved About RT 2015: RedHeadedGirl: Just being at a place where thousands of people were there primarily to talk about and geek out about women’s fictions and women’s stories in all the ways those stories … Continue reading Bitches at RT 2015: Our Favorite Things →
Orphan Black is the kind of show that makes me want to go door-to-door preaching the Gospel of Tatiana Maslany. It makes me feel frantic with anxiety, gleeful, weepy, excited, and triumphant. It makes me laugh so hard I fall off the couch and it makes my heart grow three sizes. It’s given rise to a nurturing online community (The Clone Club) which uses one of the character’s lines as its motto, “We make a … Continue reading Ravings of an Orphan Black Fan →
Recap: The shit has hit the fan. Previously: there are little Russian girls that kill people. Peggy brought home a pet Soviet Shrink. 1944, Russian, four men are unbagged, and informed that they have been selected to join Leviathan. If any wish to decline, “The time to speak is now.” One dude says he’s got a wife and four daughters, and respectfully requests to decline. Dottie stabs him in the throat, and everyone else is … Continue reading Agent Carter Episode 6: A Sin to Err →
Peggy gives us a moment to catch up on everything that’s happening- she loved and lost Steve, works for the SSR, Howard Stark asks her to find his stuff and clear his name, leaves her a butler (HEY JAMES D’ARCY HEY) and time is running out. At Peggy’s New Apartment Building of Well Defended Virginhood, a guy watched ominously from the shadows while Peggy starts researching the symbol James Frain left her. This is pre-Google, … Continue reading Agent Carter, Episode 3: Time and Tide →
