#Amending

[thebookdragon217]

Interlocking stories are winning me over. I love that more authors are using this format. It's a great way to tell stories in a way that can be stopped and started when the business of life gets in the way. Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions by Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi released September 13 and it is sure to provide a welcome reprieve from the mundane. I'm always looking to add more African literature to my personal library and I'm excited to sample this collection. Thanks to @amistadbooks and @bibliolifestyle for the gifted copy. QOTD: What's your preferred reading format? 🇳🇬 SYNOPSIS 🇳🇬 Nigerian author Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi makes her American debut with this dazzling novel which explores her homeland’s past, present, and possible future through the interconnected stories of four fearless globe-trotting women. Moving between Nigeria and America, Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions is a window into the world of accomplished Nigerian women, illuminating the challenges they face and the risks they take to control their destinies. #JollofRiceAndOtherRevolutions #tbr #omololaijeomaogunyemi #bookish #bibliolifestyle #bookstagram #read #reading #bookcommunity #books  #Nigeria #AfricanLiterature #Africa #shortstories #bookrecommendation #bookstores #readersofinstagram #amending #bookworm #booklover (at The Bushwick Collective) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj54eMYAjOK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[sentientsky]

just a friendly reminder that, just because slavery was formally "abolished" in the so-called united states* in 1865, enslavement itself is still ongoing in the form of incarceration, which disproportionately affects Black and Indigenous people

(*i say "so-called" because the US is a settler-colonial construction founded on greed, extraction, and white supremacy) recommended readings/resources:

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

"How the 13th Amendment Kept Slavery Alive: Perspectives From the Prison Where Slavery Never Ended" by Daniele Selby

"So You're Thinking About Becoming an Abolitionist" by Mariame Kaba

"The Case for Prison Abolition: Ruth Wilson Gilmore on COVID-19, Racial Capitalism & Decarceration" from Democracy Now! [VIDEO]

[yoggybloggy]

[whenweallvote]

Many of us are taught that slavery came to an end with the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, but for enslaved people in Texas, freedom didn’t come until June 19, 1865.

Swipe to learn about the history of Juneteenth, and why it’s a celebration of freedom, culture, and progress.

[pinkiepig]

DOODLE DOODLE DOODLE DOODLETUDTU I LOVE THIS BRUSH

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

These MAGA fucks won't be happy until we return to a time when only straight, white, male, Christian, land-owners could vote! Women, wake up! They won't stop at taking away your right to make decisions about your own body. They want to take away your right to vote! What will be next?

[violetwolfraven]

The funniest thing in the world to me is when people write mermaids that are bothered by humans eating fish. Like do you think fish don’t eat each other? The ocean is full of little freaks that will eat whatever or whoever the fuck will fit in their mouths. If the mermaids haven’t been eating fish this whole time what do you think they’ve been eating? If the answer is humans, that doesn’t make it any less funny. They’ll eat the species that looks like the top half of them but won’t eat a species that looks like the bottom half? Peak comedy.

[nikidanger]

Just going to leave this here...

[thatsamerica76]

[artifacts-archive]

Bowl Depicting Foxes* Attacking Human

Nazca, 180 BCE–500 CE

[liberalsarecool]

Conservative legal theory is dogshit.

[jackass-democrats]

It doesn't support the socialist democrat narrative to point out who commits the lion's share of gun crimes.

[anotherpapercut]

the ACLU and Missouri library association sued the state over proposed censorship laws so they're retaliating by cutting our budget by $4.5mil 🙃

[guavi]

it's Mary Poppins ya'll

[godisarepublican]