Black Girl Futures |
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You have nine texts to choose from below. When you click on the images below, you will find out more about the authors of each text. First, read all of the linked pages below for these authors. Once you have read the information provided at each link, choose your final text. For a more comprehensive list of Black women comic writers, you can click here.
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In this part of the unit, we are reading comics by Black women that feature Black girls and young Black women. We are are asking ourselves a simple but loaded question here: What do the experiences of Black girlhood bring to the future? To how we imagine alternative futures?
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From Top to Bottom:
1) Aya: Love in Yop City by Marguerite Abouet 2) Bingo Love by Tee Franklin 3) Bitch Planet (this is an edited collection: read "Bits and Pieces" by Che Grayson, "To Be Free" by Vita Ayala, "Basic Bitch" by Bassey Nyambi / Nyambi Nyambi) |
4) Black Panther: World of Wakanda by Roxane Gay
5) (H)afrocentric by Jewels Smith 6) Ironheart by Eve Ewing 7) Livewire by Vita Ayala 8) Shuri by Nnedi Okorafor 9) Spirit's Destiny by Dorphise Jean |
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