Joshunda Sanders

Sep 16, 2024 | bookandfilmglobe.com | Joshunda Sanders |Stephen Garrett |Omar Gallaga

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Feb 29, 2024 | blackbooks.substack.com | Joshunda Sanders

As religions go, Catholicism is notorious for its interiority, and that might be one of the foundational reasons I decided at 12 that I would become a writer. Put another way, I have gotten to know myself deeply from a young age because I spent a lot of time alone. We had zero money in the most expensive city in the country. Growing up, I knew homelessness and chaos. I got bullied for being bummy on top of being smart. I did not want to ever be poor again.

Dec 17, 2023 | blackbooks.substack.com | Joshunda Sanders

Black Thought does not disappoint in his new memoir The Upcycled Self, but I can’t write honestly about the book without saying why I was so invested in reading it in the first place. I claim the Bronx as home because everything missing within it and everything there that was intended to destroy me became what I used to write, to draw, to absorb hip hop culture. But I was born in Philly and raised in its too quiet working class suburbs. My mom’s family was rooted there by way of the South.

Oct 7, 2023 | blackbooks.substack.com | Joshunda Sanders

It takes a special kind of person to be a nurse. Given the history of healthcare in this country, and how the healthcare system has exploited, maimed and killed Black people (for more background, Harriet Washington’s Medical Apartheid, and more recently, Linda Villarosa’s Under the Skin) it takes an extraordinary faith in humanity for Black people to follow their vocations in health and healthcare.

Sep 7, 2023 | simcoe.com | Kat Devereaux |Stephen Greco |Denise Mina |Joshunda Sanders

Escape to FlorenceBy Kat DevereauxHarper Paperbacks, 272 pages, $23.99 In 2019, freelance writer-protagonist Tori MacNair leaves her emotionally abusive marriage when she receives a bequest from her grandmother Margaret and decides to spend the money living in Florence, the city her grandmother taught her to love. There, she begins to discover truths about her family history that alter her understanding of the past.