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Great book about domestic work, civil rights, and racism. It tackles many heavy topics and is also quite funny! I wish more had changed in the 60+ years since this book was published. Highly recommended. #womenauthors #women #domesticwork #racism #civilrights

"Oh honey, you don't have to look at this [movie] because I can tell you how it will end....Well, the white men will kill the chief and his medicine man, take all the gold and head back for civilization with the pretty white woman who has been queen of the jungle ever since she was dropped from an aeroplane when she was three years old....Yes, sure, they all like that!"
-"So Much For Nothing"

""Heavenly Father," I said, "we pray thee to go easy on Judas if he is still in torment, because men are still informing for the sake of silver only they haven't the shame to hang themselves afterward.""
-"A New Kind of Prayer"

Something really stressful and scary happened tonight (it's okay now, but BPD doesn't let me calm down, sometimes for several days), so I'm unwinding by rereading one of the funniest and most incisive books I've ever read, one that's also been on my "to reread" list for a while.

#FeistyFeb Day 28 - Best of February

I read a total of 8 books in February and I really liked them all, but my faves are the Childress & Hurston:
•"Like One of the Family" by Alice Childress
•"Freedom Is a Constant Struggle" by Angela Davis
•"Love Is Love" by various artists
•"Mules and Men" by Zora Neale Hurston
•"Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
•"Glaciers" by Alexis M Smith
•"Late Wife" by Claudia Emerson
•"White Teeth" by Zadie Smith

Currently reading this reprinted novel full of brief conversations between domestic workers in 1950s Harlem!

#blackhistorymonth #winterofwomen17

I'm glad I got the chance to read this for #BlackHistoryMonth. Alice Childress' novel provides great insight into what life was like for a domestic worker in Harlem in the 50s. Her main character, Mildred, is everything I aspire to be as a woman: fierce, independent, able to speak her mind, and not willing to put up with anyone's nonsense. Plus, the new edition has a foreword from Roxanne Gay! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Nothing is worse than being sick. 😷 Good thing I have #bookmail to cheer me up!

Today's #bookmail is totally on point for the first day of #blackhistorymonth - a reprint of the 1956 novel about two women, both domestic servants, and their experiences and perspectives on life.