Not a new book but extremely hard to find: The Garden Letters of Yvonne Vera by Tadiwa Madenga.

Yvonne Vera and I are both from Bulawayo and haunted many of the same places. This short book was illuminating and made me so very nostalgic.

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And all academia pushes academics who are from these communities to write about ourselves like we’re disembodied. Because the mind is all that matters right? The colonial project is to get us to turn ourselves into digestible parts so that we can be masticated and spat out

A friend of mine who used to be an investigative reporter at a major publication warned me repeatedly to never go to the NYT with a scoop because all they do is trade for access and the fact that they didn’t sound the alarm BEFORE this happened is a great example of trading silence for access

Literally the best app. I love that you can custom-tag books, among other things. It’s so freaking good

Not me thinking “Aw kitty” what a sweet pup 🥹

I beseechingly request THE SAUCE give us those puppy eyes pls

Ugh thank you so much for this and for your words, always. Stolen land is too much also stolen time, personal and collective. Just theft and violence all around. So much more to say but most of all thank you for this thread and your other words.

I need this to be a thread asap if there’s time and energy for it 🥹