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How author Talia Hibbert is creating inclusive realities for Black women in romance
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How author Talia Hibbert is creating inclusive realities for Black women in romance

Now, Talia Hibbert’s Brown Sister book series allowed me to reimagine a reality in which Black women can be loved completely and unconditionally. In her novels, Hibbert emphasizes that Black women don't need to struggle in romantic relationships nor do Black women have to settle for a partner.

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On Learning to Let Go
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On Learning to Let Go

As humans, we grieve transition. Letting go also requires proper grieving without shame or guilt. With all I’ve given up, let go, or lost, I’ve given myself the space to grieve what mattered to me. So, how do you learn to let go? Just commit to letting go, stand behind it, and trust that you’ll be okay because you know what’s best for you.

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Book Review: Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
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Book Review: Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

Moreover, the genre of speculative fiction is one that seeks to re-imagine current history, reality, and observed phenomena, in a super-natural or futuristic context, in a way that challenges our limited imagination of true freedom as well as oppression. Children of Blood and Bone explores many real concepts of liberation for Black people.

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What does abolishing the police actually look like?
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What does abolishing the police actually look like?

For many skeptics, police abolition seems like an unsafe solution to begin the work towards dismantling white supremacy. So, let’s examine the problem with police as we know it in a broader sense: first, the entire justice system in the United States criminalizes homelessness, sex work, and drug addiction; therefore, rendering people without stable housing, sex workers, and those suffering from addiction unprotected by the law and from those who enforce the law.

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