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online home of young adult author sumayyah daud. “A woman-of-color who writes poetry or paints or dances or makes movies knows there is no escape from race or gender when she is writing or painting. She can’t take off her color and sex and leave them at the door or her study or studio. Nor can she leave behind her history. Art is about identity, among other things, and her creativity is political.”

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Man U v. Inter Milan courtesy of the job! 😁 (at FedEx Field)

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Eid Mubarak! كل سنة و أنتم سعيد

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“I think I’m moving more toward something that is more radically happy, or more optimistic, about what it means to be a women of color and inhabiting a body of color.”

— Sumayyah Daud in her First Draft interview (Available here and on iTunes)

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The inaugural First Draft podcast! A discussion with the lovely Sumayyah Daud, 24-year old author of the forthcoming BEGIN AGAIN, about radical happiness, Bill Shakespeare’s butt jokes, and #WeNeedDiverseBooks.

Show Notes:

N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

Audre Lorde A Litany For Survival and Sister Outsider

NaNoWriMo = National Novel Writing Month

Donna Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century.”

Charlotte Dacre Zofloya

Daniel Jose Older’s Shadowshaper

Sumayyah’s blog post at YA Highway, “I’m Still Here”

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Saturday morning coffee

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it is january, virginia

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everything's covered in ice!!!

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Nicole Beharie being a cutie at Comic Con 2013 

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Central Graveyard/ Vienna

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Welcome to the 21st century, Mr. Crane.

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#you—you fight good.

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