In which there are real and fictional black women, and the white racists who hate us
- With thanks to 
pulchritude for reminding me, and a nod to my intersectional allies (especially those preparing for Blog Against Disablism Day).
won’t you celebrate with me, by Lucille Clifton
won’t you celebrate with me
what i have shaped into
a kind of life? i had no model.
born in babylon
both nonwhite and woman
what did i see to be except myself?
i made it up
here on this bridge between
starshine and clay,
my one hand holding tight
my other hand; come celebrate
with me that everyday
something has tried to kill me
and has failed.
- Reading, books 2016, 52.
46. Lavender-Green Magic, by Andre Norton, is an abusive racist gaslightling piece of evil toxic garbage shat out by Nice White Liberal author Andre Norton in 1974. I read this because I've been trying to track down some of the novels I read when I was a kid and I read and re-read several of Norton's books from my local library but they didn't have this one, which I had long regretted until now that I've actually read it I've realised how devastating it would've been in the mid 1970s for any Black girl to find one of those rare novels featuring a Black girl on the cover (especially one written by a respected author) and then read the repeated hate-filled abusive racist gaslighting in this piece of evil toxic garbage systematically structured to induce self-hatred in young Black girls (which is exactly what white supremacists want because it would save them the trouble of trying to keep us down). Most white readers would, of course, also absorb the poisonous reality-twisting lies that depict racism being caused by Black people (y'know, like misogyny is caused by women victims and classism is caused by poor people, oh wait no, Norton managed to depict misogyny against white women as being caused by misogynists and classism as being enacted by wealthy snobs). Even as an adult this novel was so damaging and painful that it took me TEN DAYS to wade through this abusive racist gaslighting, when I'd read my previous ten adult novels at an average rate of 2.5 days each. So, THANK YOU to the librarians who didn't buy or shelve this hate-filled racist diatribe in my local library system because I can't bear to imagine what reading it would have done to me as a child. I finished this on 07-04-16 and am reviewing it on 24-04-16 because it literally rendered me speechless for over two weeks. (0/5 because according to Lavender-Green Magic the Nice White Liberals in the rural US in 1974 were never racist and any racism must have been in the evil-minded imagination of Black girls... ::speechless:: ... because racism was so over in 1974, which is also what evil abusive gaslighting Nice White Liberal racists claimed during Racefail in 2009 when they were spewing verbal abuse and physical threats at Black women, and what white supremacists still claim in 2016 whenever Black people tell truthful facts about the realities of white-on-Black racism).
Luckily I could scrub my brain and immediately bathe in...
47. Lumberjanes, vol.3, A Terrible Plan, by Noelle Stevenson, Shannon Watters, and Carolyn Nowak, is another wonderful graphic novel about everyone's favourite hardcore lady-type summer campers. Mal and Molly go on their first date ♥ and the Bear Woman ensues. Meanwhile, back at Roanoke (lol), Jo, April, Ripley, and Bubbles the raccoon, attempt to earn some normal girl guide lumberjane badges. I love Noelle Stevenson and Shannon Watters' scripts and adore Carolyn Nowak's art. Also, there's a lumberjane with an unexplained eyepatch which = automatically awesome, obv. (5/5 OBV)
• Molly on being confronted by raptors: "FOR THE LOVE OF MARY ANNING, A PACK OF DINOSAURS?!"
• Ripley's innovative method of cake decorating: "I put frosting on my face and then I put my face on the cake."
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pulchritude for reminding me, and a nod to my intersectional allies (especially those preparing for Blog Against Disablism Day).
won’t you celebrate with me, by Lucille Clifton
won’t you celebrate with me
what i have shaped into
a kind of life? i had no model.
born in babylon
both nonwhite and woman
what did i see to be except myself?
i made it up
here on this bridge between
starshine and clay,
my one hand holding tight
my other hand; come celebrate
with me that everyday
something has tried to kill me
and has failed.
- Reading, books 2016, 52.
46. Lavender-Green Magic, by Andre Norton, is an abusive racist gaslightling piece of evil toxic garbage shat out by Nice White Liberal author Andre Norton in 1974. I read this because I've been trying to track down some of the novels I read when I was a kid and I read and re-read several of Norton's books from my local library but they didn't have this one, which I had long regretted until now that I've actually read it I've realised how devastating it would've been in the mid 1970s for any Black girl to find one of those rare novels featuring a Black girl on the cover (especially one written by a respected author) and then read the repeated hate-filled abusive racist gaslighting in this piece of evil toxic garbage systematically structured to induce self-hatred in young Black girls (which is exactly what white supremacists want because it would save them the trouble of trying to keep us down). Most white readers would, of course, also absorb the poisonous reality-twisting lies that depict racism being caused by Black people (y'know, like misogyny is caused by women victims and classism is caused by poor people, oh wait no, Norton managed to depict misogyny against white women as being caused by misogynists and classism as being enacted by wealthy snobs). Even as an adult this novel was so damaging and painful that it took me TEN DAYS to wade through this abusive racist gaslighting, when I'd read my previous ten adult novels at an average rate of 2.5 days each. So, THANK YOU to the librarians who didn't buy or shelve this hate-filled racist diatribe in my local library system because I can't bear to imagine what reading it would have done to me as a child. I finished this on 07-04-16 and am reviewing it on 24-04-16 because it literally rendered me speechless for over two weeks. (0/5 because according to Lavender-Green Magic the Nice White Liberals in the rural US in 1974 were never racist and any racism must have been in the evil-minded imagination of Black girls... ::speechless:: ... because racism was so over in 1974, which is also what evil abusive gaslighting Nice White Liberal racists claimed during Racefail in 2009 when they were spewing verbal abuse and physical threats at Black women, and what white supremacists still claim in 2016 whenever Black people tell truthful facts about the realities of white-on-Black racism).
Luckily I could scrub my brain and immediately bathe in...
47. Lumberjanes, vol.3, A Terrible Plan, by Noelle Stevenson, Shannon Watters, and Carolyn Nowak, is another wonderful graphic novel about everyone's favourite hardcore lady-type summer campers. Mal and Molly go on their first date ♥ and the Bear Woman ensues. Meanwhile, back at Roanoke (lol), Jo, April, Ripley, and Bubbles the raccoon, attempt to earn some normal girl guide lumberjane badges. I love Noelle Stevenson and Shannon Watters' scripts and adore Carolyn Nowak's art. Also, there's a lumberjane with an unexplained eyepatch which = automatically awesome, obv. (5/5 OBV)
• Molly on being confronted by raptors: "FOR THE LOVE OF MARY ANNING, A PACK OF DINOSAURS?!"
• Ripley's innovative method of cake decorating: "I put frosting on my face and then I put my face on the cake."
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