Bethany C. Morrow

Nov 5, 2024 | bookriot.com | Honoree Fanonne Jeffers |Honorée Jeffers |Bethany C. Morrow |Erica Ezeifedi

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. When it comes to books, ones with family dynamics often feel like they are among the most book club-friendly. Someone always has a secret, parents are often raggedy, and trauma abounds.

Aug 21, 2023 | tor.com | Bethany C. Morrow

Catching Fire came out November 2013. Mockingjay: Part 1 came out November 2014. In between, Mike Brown was killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, and the Ferguson Uprising took place. This essay is about what it was like to live in an America that can rapturously and enthusiastically consume and cosplay revolution, and can look on real world resistance with disdain.

Jun 19, 2023 | bethanycmorrow.substack.com | Bethany C. Morrow

Happy Juneteenth, friends! If you haven’t checked out my historical fiction Little Women remix, So Many Beginnings, the above is an excerpt from Part II. And it—the above excerpt—epitomizes my definition of freedom. Freedom is not one dimensional. It isn’t defined solely by what we’re free of. It is woefully incomplete if it isn’t freedom to something as well. And perhaps that’s where freedom becomes liberation, for me.

Jun 3, 2023 | bethanycmorrow.substack.com | Bethany C. Morrow

First things first: Why do people make “I would NEVER let my child ___” videos and tweets? I feel like the gravity of having a platform, just as a concept or even as an aspiration, (which is to say, on some level, none of this is tethered to reality) causes people to make theatrical declarations. Right? Like it’s why some people do Twitter so wrong.

May 5, 2023 | bethanycmorrow.substack.com | Bethany C. Morrow

I want to start by confessing that this substack was begun in a fit of community and a haze of I-had-writer-friends-over. There were beautiful Black women in my living room, and everything sounded like a good idea. It’s my version of blackout drunk. My point is, with regard to questions like “what is this” and “what do you do here” and “why are we here” and “I have better things to do”: Patience. Little brother. Patience. Little sister. Whoa-whoa-patience, patience.