Book Review: “The Sex Lives of African Women”
About halfway through Jenelle Monae’s song “Screwed,” she begins to chant, “See, if everything is sex, except sex, which is power, you...
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Perdita Patrice
- Jan 19, 2021
Eric Jerome Dickey Changed the Way I Saw the World and Myself
On the afternoon of January 5, 2021, I was sitting at my dining room table. I checked Twitter and learned one of my favorite authors, New...
Perdita Patrice
- Jan 30, 2020
The World of Privilege Explored in Kiley Reid’s “Such a Fun Age”
Lots of people say being around toddlers is fun. They talk for hours, love to play and explore and like to think they’re big kids....
Perdita Patrice
- Jan 29, 2020
NY Public Library Lists Their Most Checked Out Books of All Time
Photo courtesy of Pixabay Library books often take interesting journeys—people to people, place to place. Ever wonder wonder how many...
Perdita Patrice
- Jan 22, 2020
Fiction Writer Rebekah Weatherspoon Wants to Give Black Women Their Happily Ever Afters
Award winning author, Rebekah Weatherspoon has published 17 romantic novels and novellas featuring mostly Black women as leading...
Perdita Patrice
- Aug 28, 2019
On Toni Morrison and the Craft of Writing
I learned of her death while driving through Bed Stuy. I saw the first tribute flash across my phone during a quick Instagram scroll at...
Perdita Patrice
- Jul 23, 2019
Visiting A Tale of Two Collections
Langston Hughes once said, “But this is the mountain standing in the way of any true Negro art in America–this urge within the race...
Perdita Patrice
- Feb 2, 2019
On “Becoming”
When I learned Michelle Obama had written a memoir, I was excited and asked my mom to buy the book for me. Of course, my mom said “yes”...
Perdita Patrice
- Aug 15, 2018
Who Was Anne Frank?
The name of this book is “Who Was Anne Frank?” The author of this book is Ann Abramson. Anne Frank was born on June 12, 1929. She loved...
Perdita Patrice
- Aug 15, 2018
Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13
The name of my book is “Counting on Katherine.” The author of my book is Melanie Becker. This book is about Katherine Johnson. She was a...
Perdita Patrice
- Feb 28, 2018
An American Marriage: A Review
Celestial and Roy would be what social media users refer to as #relationshipgoals. Much like most of those relationships depicted on...
Perdita Patrice
- Feb 8, 2018
Five Books Every Young Black Feminist Should Read in 2018
Now that we’re well into 2018 and most of us have forgotten our resolutions or are recommitting (kudos, overachievers!), one resolution...
Perdita Patrice
- Dec 9, 2017
A Love Letter to Black Girlhood: Eve L. Ewing’s “Electric Arches”
One of my favorite poems that race is “the first time [a re-telling].” In this poem, the writer describes her first time experiencing...
Perdita Patrice
- Dec 6, 2017
Black Genius: A Q&A with Airea D. Matthews
In 1942, writer Margaret Walker’s seminal work, “For My People,” earned her the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. It would be 74 years...
Perdita Patrice
- Oct 13, 2017
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward: A Brief Recap + Questionnaire
“Sing, Unburied, Sing” is set primarily on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The novel, ultimately, is a study of family and the bonds that...
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