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  1. The energy y’all have for Onyx Storm is what y’all said you’d have for Black and brown authors starting back in 2020.

    Where’s that at??? What’s on your shelves?

    *pulls the curtain back to reveal SJM, Hannah Grace, King, Gaiman, Clare, Rowling, and an unread copy of “White Fragility”*

    #reading #onyxstorm #books #bookstodon #fantasy #novels #decolonizeyourbookshelf

  2. "Those who maintain that #art must not propagate doctrines, refer only to those doctrines that are contrary to their own."

    ~#JorgeLuisBorges, as quoted by #SylviaWynter, p615 of We Must Learn to Sit Down Together and Talk About a Little Culture.

    #quotes #bookstodon #decolonize #DecolonizeYourBookshelf

  3. @Paperbacks_n_Frybread Likely last two of the year: I should be able to finish We Must Learn to Sit Down Together and Talk About a Little Culture: Decolonising Essays, 1967-1984, by #SylviaWynter
    and
    The Immortality Thief, by Taran Hunt (#SciFi)
    and probably start Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide, by #AndreaSmith

    #bookstodon #DecolonizeYourBookshelf @bookstodon #AmReading