Hi Substack family! First, my apologies for leaving you high and dry for a few weeks. Life happens, school happens, and it is all happening all at once. We get it. I’m putting pressure on myself to remain more consistent.
In the meantime, I’ve been working + reading + writing! I plan to give y’all a podcast review next week for Passenger List, which I recently finished literally a year after the last episode dropped. I have thoughts and I can’t wait for you to hear them; until then, here are some of my favorite articles of the last semester and a half.
After Reconstruction, Black Women Found Opportunity for Revolt in Church
Genre and linguistic expectation shift: Evidence from pop song lyrics
On the Trauma and Creativity Behind Kurt Vonnegut’s Classic Slaughterhouse Five
Jocelyn Nicole Johnson talks home, identity, and 'My Monticello'
Black Bodies In White Words, Or: Why We Need Claudia Rankine
Bros., Lecce: We Eat at The Worst Michelin Starred Restaurant, Ever
ENJOY OBVIOUSLY FAKE ADVICE-COLUMN LETTERS FOR WHAT THEY ARE: CATHARSIS
My 14-Hour Search for the End of TGI Friday's Endless Appetizers
How Rupert Murdoch’s Empire of Influence Remade the World: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
I Was Surrounded by “Final Girls” in School, Knowing I’d Never Be One
What the Haunting ‘Inner Passage’ Represented to the Enslaved
I love you, and I’ll see you on Sunday!
oh my!! so excited to delve into this list
the list looks absolutely amazing, thankyou thankyou thankyou