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My Nigerian Husband, Cheryl Strayed & I. Again.
Me: Sweetie, how’s your first trip to Canada? O: It’s great! My only regret is that I forgot to pack WILD. Me: Are you kidding me? Didn’t we just have a talk about not taking books off my nightstand,...
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NEWS FLASH! – Retiring Cinema Owner To Give Away The Place + $20,000!
faithadiele:If my love for the San Francisco Bay Area didn’t trump my love for cinema, I’d passionately throw my hat into this wacky ring at the opportunity to run a seaside cinema in the town where my...
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It’s a Kwanzaa miracle! No longer an Octoroon.
My VONA and Mixed Remixed Festival pal Mat Johnson, whose latest novel is out next week, has an essay in The New York Times Magazine, “Proving My Blackness,” on testing his racial DNA....
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Well, we’ve found the antidote: Study finds being exposed to Buddhist...
Study finds being exposed to Buddhist concepts reduces prejudice and increases prosociality In 3 separate experiments, researchers from Belgium and Taiwan have found that being exposed to Buddhist...
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On being born biracial in Spokane & the Dolezal discourse
I was born in a Home for Unwed Mothers in Spokane, Washington. Among the 50 white and 10 black girls, my white (Nordic-American) mother, pregnant by my black (Nigerian) father, was the only one who...
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Full circle: The New Face of Travel (9/22)!
I was thrilled when curator-about-town Lisa Gray (my former Mills student and TA) asked me to host a themed reading for 14 Black Poppies/The Bloom Series. I chose the rich topic, BAD TRIPS, and decided...
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The Logic of Leave-taking
O: So, Honorable Pumpkin, I’m leaving. Me: I believe you. O: You believe me? What does that mean? Me: Nothing! Good luck with your errands. O: Oh, you mean because 4 hours ago I said I was gonna leave...
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I guest-edited a special issue of AWAY
What a great way to start the new year – with the launch of the first of four travel magazines I’m guest-editing this year. This partnership with VONA/Voices Summer Workshops of Writers of Color is...
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6th Installment of African Book Club does African Sci-Fi
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My Favorite African Science Fiction and Fantasy (AfroSFF) Short Fiction of 2015
Our man Dilman Dila – whose Commonwealth Award-nominated collection we’ll be discussing tomorrow – came in at #2 on this list of best African SciFi/Fantasy of 2015. African Book Club – The First...
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