Not that Austen...

Writer, designer, and general nerd (Master's student w/ a focus on medieval poetry). My debut poetry collection BURNING THE BACON was published in 2018.  I'm also on #bookstagram @girlfriendofbath. 

[sapphicides]

in honor of black history month 2025, i’ve put together a list of books written by black sapphic authors for you to read in the month of february

non-fiction essays/memoirs:

all about love: new visions by bell hooks

black lesbian in white america by anita cornwell

sister outsider: essays and speeches by audre lorde

mouths of rain: an anthology of black lesbian thought by briona simone jones

blues legacies and black feminism by angela davis

does your mama know?: an anthology of black lesbian coming out stories by lisa c. moore

fiction:

the color purple by alice walker

loving her by ann allen shockley

the gilda stories by jewelle gomez

in another place, not here by dionne brand

pomegranate by helen elaine lee

the summer we got free by mia mckenzie

these letters end in tears by musih tedji xaviere

dead in long beach, california by venita blackburn

young adult:

honey girl by morgan rogers

escaping mr. rochester by l.l. mckinney

this ravenous fate by hayley dennings

faebound by saraa el-arifa

so let them burn by kamilah cole

where sleeping girls lie by faridah àbíké-íyímídé

adult:

the deep by rivers solomon

sweet vengeance by viano oniomoh

come back (love concealed) by terri ronald

house of hunger by alexis henderson

short stories:

girl, woman, other by bernadine evaristo

the secret lives of church ladies by deesha philyaw

additional info:

-> “why wasn’t this book listed?” probably because it wasn’t black sapphic-centric, the author isn’t a black sapphic themself, or i just simply haven’t heard of it! so feel free to add on if it meets those two criteria

many of these books require trigger warnings, especially some of the older ones that are more likely to feature racial struggles of the time. please do your due diligence and search for tws if you want to read them!

please feel free to add onto this list in the rbs or comments! happy black history month

[projectiondepartment]

every time it rains i think of that raymond carver poem. poetry is like prayer to me methinks. or an incantation

[projectiondepartment]

this one btw

[petaltexturedskies]

Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

[teasoph]

Summer holidays. I started reading Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. I’ve wanted to read this book for a while.

[homunculus-argument]

in Finland, it is illegal to kill a bear when it’s hibernating. If you ask a hunter why that is, a number of them will tell you it’s wrong simply because it is the law, and they don’t make a distinction between what is right, and what is legal. Most people like that are perfectly normal, decent and respectable people, just like the rest of us.

 But if you ask people who think about things, the answer is vague. Killing a hibernating bear would just feel… impolite? You can’t fucking shoot a man when he’s sleeping, that’s just fucking rude. It’s just not the right thing to do.

 Long before hunting laws were established in Finland, you couldn’t kill a sleeping bear, and what commands you is something older than law: tradition. Even at a time when hunting was a matter of life and death, and a bear fighting for its life is mainly a matter of death, you just didn’t kill a hibernating bear, you have to wake it up first. Hunters risked their lives, the lives of their brothers and everyone in the hunting party, who were friends, family and men that they loved, to give the bear a fighting chance.

 In the modern time, the hunting season of bears is in the summer, for the warmest summer months. There are many reasons for why they are allowed to tread safely in autumn and to sleep in peace through the cold months, almost all of which are rational and scientific, and do not touch the old traditions.

 Old faith says a living thing has many souls - henki, luonto, itse. Plants only have one - the one that wills them to grow. Animals have two, both the spark of life and nature that enables them to act. A human being also has the third, one that makes them a person, personality, itse, literally “self”. But the soul that travels in your dreams is not the soul that defines a human - animals have that one as well. When your dog runs in her sleep, her soul is elsewhere, where a dog is needed.

 One’s waking soul is elsewhere when they sleep and dream. A bear’s soul is somewhere else when they are hibernating - there are two words for “hibernation” in finnish, one of which is talviuni, “winter sleep”, and that is the one that bears have - and if you kill a sleeping bear, their soul is not in the body, it is still out there, and it can find you, and as a revenge for killing its body, Ghost Bear will kill your entire fucking family.

[shakespearesdaughters]

[stevemccurrystudios-deactivated]

“We read to know we’re not alone.” - William Nicholson, Shadowlands

[caffeinated-chapter-chaser]

🌸Pink books for the spring 🌸

[postarcadian]

i. The Wanderer (anonymous Old English poem ca. 9th-10th century; trans. A.S. Kline)

ii. Maffeo Vegio, Book XIII of the Aeneid, 1428, trans. Michael Putnam

iii. J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers, 1954

[vestalevelata]

[funstealer]

Forest in Usadba Zavetnoye, Russia, between Moscow and Velikiy Novgorod.

[aponii1]

Books and cats.

[devinellekurtz]

He wants some bread… 🥖🥐 Twitter I Instagram

[devinellekurtz]

Bread Dragon is getting a book! His name is Ember, and his 48-page, fully illustrated picture book adventure is available for pre-order now, right here!!! Comes out Oct 1 of this year!

It’s all thanks to you guys & your passion that I had the chance to make this book!

[ur-daily-inspiration]

[anxietyproblem]

[raposabranca-art]

Line weight. Perspective. The tilting of the head. Expression. Volume.

This early Modern human knew exactly what we learn to this day in order to create the illusion of life in 2d art.

Whoever they were, I admire them as much as every other great master.

[deadpoet117]

Adding the lions (which are but one section of the larger mural) because they take my breath away

[deadpoet117]

Oh, my poor unsuspecting blogger, there are more than just lions!

We got

rhinos

Dem

Bison and mammoth

And

Horsies too!

[dirtyriver]

Visiting (the reproduction of) Chauvet is a fucking experience, let me tell you. And there's a package of pictured available on their site: https://en.grottechauvet2ardeche.com/discover-the-site/la-grotte/

Here are some handprints:

And an owl:

[sauntervaguelydown]

Before this post, It never really occurred to me that the ancient cave painters probably practiced before painting those walls—they probably didn’t let just anybody put a bear up there, either. I wonder where and with what materials they were practicing.

[somerabbitholes]

The first few books this year have been coincidentally red. With Tom Holland’s Dominion, I’ve found myself reading history that I’m not entirely familiar with and that isn’t strictly my business or about me. In other words, I’ve been able to have pure fun with this one. Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro pierced through me. I’ve often described books as cascading, and this was one of them. Finally, addressing my fascination with archives: the Asia Society’s 1968 issue of its journal, Contemporary India. The issues it contends with are at once similar, familiar, and so far away: foodgrain shortages, Cold War rivalries, and India’s border disputes.

[high-quality-tiktoks]

wichita public library has the most delightful short story dispenser at the airport!

[aqua-regia009]

The shadow, 2023 - oil on linen — Daniela Astone (Italian, b.1980)

https://www.daniela-astone.com/