#black memoir

[mermazeablaze]

I thought some of my Tumblr mutuals would be interested to see this article.

Viola Ford Fletcher, aged 109, just published a memoir 'Don't Let Them Bury My Story' about her experience during the Greenwood/Tulsa Massacre. It will be available for purchase August 15th.

"Her memoir, “Don’t Let Them Bury My Story,” is a call to action for readers to pursue truth, justice and reconciliation no matter how long it takes. Written with graphic details of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre that she witnessed at age seven, Fletcher said she hoped to preserve a narrative of events that was nearly lost to a lack of acknowledgement from mainstream historians and political leaders.

The questions I had then remain to this day,” Fletcher writes in the book. “How could you just give a mob of violent, crazed, racist people a bunch of deadly weapons and allow them — no, encourage them — to go out and kill innocent Black folks and demolish a whole community?”

“As it turns out, we were victims of a lie,” she writes.

Fletcher notes in her memoir just how much history she has lived through — from several virus outbreaks preceding the coronavirus pandemic, to the Great Depression of 1929 and the Great Recession of 2008 to every war and international conflict of the last seven decades. She has watched the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. lead the national Civil Rights Movement, seen the historic election of former President Barack Obama and witnessed the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement."

#Tulsa Race Massacre #Tulsa Race Riot #Greenwood #Black Wall Street #1921 #Oklahoma #Viola Ford Fletcher #Don't Let Them Bury My Story #Book #Memoir #Novel #Library #History #Black Lives Matter #BLM

[krabbu]

#goodbye horses #goodbyehorses25 #memoir #black and white memoir #i miss them : ( you can still find some of their work #super influential on my writing style #idk if i should tag this as danganronpa thats the comics they made that i really loved HAHAH #dont think i will #good bye 2018. crazy to think that was 6 yrs ago now #im all grown up

[antiyourwokehomophobia2]

This is just a random post but I read Kevin Hart's book a long time ago and the parts that really stuck out to me where when his mom would beat him and his brother. Kevin plays it off as some big joke, as if it was discipline, but I think there's definitely a reason why he remembers it so clearly as a grown man. One time she beat him so badly in front of his class that his teacher or principle deadass tried to get her to stop. He plays it off like he deserves it for tampering with the house clocks (he set all the clocks in the house forward so he'd be able to go to an event that his mother said she would not wake up early for) but it's honestly just so cruel. She's so mad at him that she beats him for the bus doors not opening fast enough (no, I'm not kidding).

There's a moment in the book when Kevin describes her beating his brother. The brother, in the midst of the beating, lashes out and hits his mother in the stomach. This sends the mom so hard into a rage that she threatens to kill him and chases him out of the house with a knife. He does not come back. He actually goes to join the military, and she deadass only calls him years later when she has reason to believe he might be dead.

Kevin is one of those people who claims to have turned out fine. His one saving grace is that he does not beat his children, but he doesn't care if others beat theirs.

Kevin did not turn out fine. He proceeds to grow into a man who cheats on his partners. He proceeds to grow into a man that develops such a drinking problem that he once got in trouble with his partner for peeing inside of her bag. He proceeds to grow into a man with a spending problem.

I can't think of a way to really end this post but I do think I'll leave it here.

#I watched that TikTok with the black woman talking about how she can't imagine squaring up with her daughter #And thought about this book again #I actually really liked his book #It's one of the only memoirs I have ever read and it's good #I honestly feel sad for Kevin #His mother and father were not the best people

[bellucci-daily]

Monica Bellucci photographed by David Koskas as Maria Callas for Tom Volf's "Maria Callas: Letters and Memoirs"

#monica bellucci #monicabellucci #belluccidaily #dailywomen #userklaudia #flawlessbeautyqueens #photoshoot #black and white #bwbeautyqueens #vanessa #maria callas: letters and memoirs #2023 #* #userlau #userstream #userrobin #m!lfsource #brunettessource #breathtakingqueens #wonderfulwomendaily #italianedit #italiansedit #italianstream #dailywomanedit #dailywomansource #dailyworldcinema #flawlesscelebs #flawlessfemale #flawlesswomen #thequeensofbeauty

[drowningincolorfultears]

🪦 Rest in piss to the ones I’m killin 🪦

#me #mine #selfie #drowningincolorfultears #personal #fishnets #all black everything #alt #emo kid #scorpio #$uicideboy$ #$b #suicideboys #g59 #grey day #makeup #emo #memoirs of a gorilla #radical $uicide #redhead #156|silence #enby #nb #alt enby #love me

[memoirsofasiren]

🏴‍☠️🎬

#me #mine #dominicana #goodnight #selfie gif #memoirs #tumblr girls #gif #tattoed girls #ask me stuff #latina #im bored #anons open #all black everything

[kithj]

i finished brainwyrms this morning.. hmmm.... think i'm going to have to sit with this one for a bit before i decide how i feel about it

but i did really enjoy the prose, i liked the way she switched povs (this is something i do in hell's holler as well!) and i love second person (obviously) though i did struggle to get through the long section that was basically just "stream of consciousness" it started to annoy me at that point. it was good in moderation though when sprinkled in between the third person pov. i liked the characters and how compelling frankie and vanya were, i enjoyed reading from both of their perspectives despite how fucked up it all was. i enjoyed their opposing characters, this underlying connection of parasites and pregnancy in this context.

i think this book did a good job capturing that feeling of like... doomscrolling, or hate-reading; falling down that rabbit hole of violent transphobia and bigotry and being unable to look away, reading twitter thread after twitter thread, even as you start to feel sick to your stomach... the JKR stand-in kinda slapped me in the face a bit though, i wasn't expecting it, and i'm not really sure if i liked it or not... though i DO think the commentary about her and twitter being literal brain worms was fun (if not a little heavy-handed), but i almost wish she would have kept JKR as a more distant character rather than directly involving her in the end, it felt jarring. but i think it was effective in relaying just how influential she really is over there ("warrior priestess" made me gag). overall i usually dislike when books reference real life so heavily (i hate when authors talk about tumblr or like name brands in their books) but with this one it was so integral to the story i didn't mind, it felt natural, and obviously it's unavoidable now, social media will get mentioned in modern fiction because it's been so integrated and expected in our everyday lives (🤮) and does have real world impact... unfortunately....

i think the JKR stand-in got away from her in the end; overall the ending wasn't my favorite and she could do with some more subtlety.

it was really gross 👍i gave it 3/5. this review about sums it up

#not something i would recommend probably bc its really gross and kinda upsetting so this is your warning lmfao #i cant believe a mainstream publisher actually. published this #anyways i need to finish tender is the flesh now #and if anyone knows any black transfem authors.... i would love some recommendations #i've tried to look myself but for the most part all i could find were memoirs #or a few YA books #i did add the death of vivek oji & freshwater to my to read list #but i havent been able to find much else besides. memoirs #which are fine ofc but not what im looking for #my reviews

[thepowerofblackwomen]

Who’s your avatar picture of?

VIOLA DAVIS AN EGOT WINNER FOR BEST AUDIO BOOK, NARRATION AND STORYTELLING RECORDING

GO BUY HER MEMOIR : FINDING ME

#viola davis #finding me #memoir #queen #phenomenal woman #black history month #bhm #link

[jazzynook]

How to spend a day.

A time to just, BE.

Be with my sister. Be in nature. Amble, confide, laugh, listen, sit in silence, ponder, anticipate, pray, and give thanks. I cherish these "in-between" moments. 🖤

c. May, 2020

#memoir #soft black girl #black women #black tumblr #black girl aesthetic

[sendmyresignation]

something I've been thinking about lately. i do think it's incredibly telling that almost 80 percent of the conversations around 'gatekeeping' and 'posers' and shit end up just becoming vitriolic hatred of 'alt girls' like i hate shit spotify playlists and dollskill fake leather edge and tiktok recommendations as much as the next person but this is a very big attitude coming from a website full of people who spent their formative middle school years shopping at hot topic for multi-colored skinny jeans while listening to like. falling in reverse or 21p unironically (this is a self-own btw). first of all teenagers having shit taste isn't killing punk music. but also why is the object of your hatred always boil down to a woman faking it? as if it isn't the single oldest stereotype in heavy music? like am i insane for thinking this is an issue

#like theres another dimensionality for sure about how some women do position themselves as like 'weird' when they split-dye their hair #and wear black. and are in actuality conventionally attractive and posturing #like as a dyke metalhead that can be legitimately frustrating but also i dont think this is an issue of poserism #a lot of those women do for real listen to heavy music. #its very similar to like. those metal frontwomen who do like mag calender photoshoots for 'sexiest ladies in rock' #like theyre very much not the issue and its weird to shift the blame onto them for playing the game #and its even more fucked imo to question their allegiance to 'the scene' because it just warps into #every misogynist talking point about how women are 'too pretty'to play guitar or get sweaty in the pit or whatever #ANYWAY there is literally never this much attention given to like rym poser dudes with no brain that theyve become their own #evil subcategory of 'fake alt girl' when men are selling out to make much worse shit pop punk all the time lmaooooo #been thinking about this since i read laina dawes memoir which whil on one hand v good is so inredibly peoccupied #with other women in metal spaces. implying that those who dress sexy to go to shows do it entirely for the attention of men and are #'bad role models' left a bad taste in my mouth #my posts

[delightful-hatter]

May 23, 2022: The departure of Mama Octi

January 29, 2024: The return of Delightful Hatter

Welcome back to the island of sodor madam, what is your first order of buisness?

#art #digital art #delightful hatter #delightful hatter studio #memoir #ttte fandom #thomas and friends #thomas the tank engine #magic railway #return #black and white #color

[thedisabilitybookarchive]

'How to Live Free in a Dangerous World'- Lawson, Shayla

Subtitle: A Decolonial Memoir

Discusses: Race, Gender, Disability, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, Travel, Recovery, Drag Culture, Death, Poetry, Identity

Published: 2024

Publisher: Tiny Reparations

Available Formats: Hardcover, Kindle Edition

For more information on summaries, content warnings and additional tropes, see here:

#books #disability books #disability #disability representation #lgbtq books #lgbtq+ #lgbtq representation #black writers #poc #ehlers danlos syndrome #memoir #essays #poetry #non binary #non fiction #link

[levbolton]

They’re just each other’s image in negative, aren’t they?

#even their personalities are a match lmao #vanitas no carte #vanitas no shuki #the study case of vanitas #les memoires de vanitas #vanitas #kuroshitsuji #black butler #charles grey

[applesfallingfromblondehair]

Jimmy Keene gets me feral (and therefore I am a Bad Feminist™), 5/?

The "Ma'am, He's A Certified Jock" edition

#taron egerton #jimmy keene #black bird #black bird spoilers #from twunk to jock #a taron egerton memoir

[bellucci-daily]

Monica Bellucci photographed by Marcel Hartmann as Maria Callas for Tom Volf's "Maria Callas: Letters and Memoirs", presented at the 18th Rome Film Festival at Auditorium Parco Della Musica on October 20, 2023 in Rome, Italy.

#monica bellucci #belluccidaily #dailywomen #monicabellucci #photoshoot #vanessa #userklaudia #userreh #userrobin #userrlaura #userraffa #userrin #dailyworldcinema #dailywomansource #wonderfulwomendaily #maria callas: letters and memoirs #breathtakingqueens #black and white #glamoroussource #ladiesofcinema #flawlessbeautyqueens #flawlessfemale #italiansedit #italianedit #streamitalian #*

[sitephi]

'i cant relate to lesbian/gay/bi characters or memoirs bc im aroace' no one gives a shit . stop shitting on stuff because its not your life experience. also kind of hilarious like ok go lock yourself in your bubble of reading only the perspectives of those exactly like you...

#im not black but i read black books im not a trans woman but i read memoirs of transfems #im not physically disabled or jewish or vietnamese or this and that #you shouldnt have to share everything to relate and like