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Aug 5, 2024 | 
memoirland.substack.com | Lane Stanley |Mark Mann |Simon Wu |Gloria Alamrew
Welcome to Memoir Land—a newsletter edited by , now featuring four verticals:Memoir Monday, a weekly curation of the best personal essays from around the web brought to you by Narratively, The Rumpus, Granta, Guernica, Oldster Magazine, Literary Hub, Orion Magazine, The Walrus, and Electric Literature. Below is this week’s curation. First Person Singular, featuring original personal essays. Recently I published “The Doctor Will See You Now” by .
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
hazlitt.net | Gloria Alamrew |Nora Lange |Lauren Quinn
Motherhood untethers. It takes you out of your own corporeal vessel. It turns “me” into “we” without so much as a nod to your preparedness or spiritual fortitude. It is the inclement weather event of your humanity. A force of nature so painfully common and yet mythical in its brutality that we can’t help but be in awe of it, countless millennia later.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
msn.com | Gloria Alamrew
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
msn.com | Gloria Alamrew
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Jan 24, 2024 | 
refinery29.com | Gloria Alamrew
Story from Unbothered“When healthy cells flourish, cancer cells can’t,” These words are uttered by DeShaun Robert Peace in Rob Peace, Chiwetel Ejiofor’s second feature film as both writer and director (which debuted this week at The Sundance Film Festival). The statement becomes a revelatory prophecy of the inevitable tragedy of this young man’s ill-fated life.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
refinery29.com | Gloria Alamrew
Minor spoilers ahead."How is it that Black people have these powers but they use them for the benefit of white people?" Spike Lee asked a group of students at Yale in 2001. It was there that Lee coined the term “magical negro.” And his now famous question is one that should ring loud in all our minds as we attempt to reckon with The American Society of Magical Negroes, the feature debut from writer/director, Kobi Libii, which recently premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Gloria Alamrew
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
refinery29.com | Gloria Alamrew
Story from UnbotheredMinor spoilers ahead. "How is it that Black people have these powers but they use them for the benefit of white people?" Spike Lee asked a group of students at Yale in 2001.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Gloria Alamrew
The American Society of Magical Negroes Isn’t As Bad As The Internet Thinks. But Its Magic Is MissingMinor spoilers ahead. "How is it that Black people have these powers but they use them for the benefit of white people?" Spike Lee asked a group of students at Yale in 2001. It was there that Lee coined the term “magical negro.” And his now famous question is one that should ring loud in all our …
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Sep 27, 2023 | 
ltinthecity.substack.com | L'Oreal Thompson Payton |Jenni Gritters |Gloria Alamrew |Monique Judge
“I don’t know who needs to see this today but: the right people will find you. The best opportunities will find you. What you deserve is getting ready for you. Keep doing the healing work that you’re doing. The best is on its way to you.” ~ @thegmichelleIt’s very timely that I’m writing to you this morning about rest and recovery when I’m feeling under the weather myself (thus the later-than-usual arrival time in your inbox). Let’s start with the big news first, shall we?
