Welcome to another edition of weekend links! Each week, bluestockings staff curates a collection of links that reflect our mission as an anti-oppressive and intersectional publication.
Links We Like:
Bim Adewunmi profiles Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage, and “its ruminations on masculinity, married life, and what constitutes marital debt.”
For Audre Lorde’s birthday last week, Zaynab Sahar wrote “some thoughts on the day Audre first circled the sun”
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did you read the whole essay or did you just share the meme?
are black women a sound bite or a body of text?
a complex corpus of thought”
“Shift from individual transactions for self-care to collective transformation”: adrienne marie brown writes about how Audre Lorde teaches us about love as political resistance.
Dario Calmese photographs Harlem style icon Lana Turner in hist latest exhibition, “Amongst Friends.”
“I’m on a mission and this mission is serious and big.” Steffanee Wang interviews Spirit Payton (ASMRTheChew) and her goal to bring “ASMR into the mainstream as a natural and easy healing alternative.”
Music We Like:
BitchMedia put together a list of 50 songs to honor 20 years of Destiny’s Child. Listen on Spotify below.
Janelle Monae talked to The Guardian about “Make Me Feel” and “Django Jane,” two new singles she released from her upcoming album, Dirty Computer.