A new year means new energy—but first, we’re facing the mirror. In our first episode of 2026, we step into Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams, a novel that captures the chaos, vulnerability, and raw beauty of a woman on the edge of everything. Queenie is navigating heartbreak, mental health, career microaggressions, family pressure, and a relationship to self that’s unraveling in public—and in silence. The story hit home for all of us. There’s a kind of emotional honesty here that doesn’t flin...
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A new year means new energy—but first, we’re facing the mirror. In our first episode of 2026, we step into Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams, a novel that captures the chaos, vulnerability, and raw beauty of a woman on the edge of everything. Queenie is navigating heartbreak, mental health, career microaggressions, family pressure, and a relationship to self that’s unraveling in public—and in silence. The story hit home for all of us. There’s a kind of emotional honesty here that doesn’t flin...
The Eleventh Pour: Long After We Are Gone by Terah Shelton Harris
Black Girls Lit!
47 minutes
1 month ago
The Eleventh Pour: Long After We Are Gone by Terah Shelton Harris
The eleventh hour is when everything you’ve been holding finally breaks through. In our 11th episode, we sit with Long After We Are Gone—a novel that doesn’t just tell a story, it demands that you feel it. And we did. Every one of us. Natasha, Lex, Stephanie, and Star came into this conversation carrying more than just thoughts—we brought our full hearts. This is a book about the ache that lives beneath silence. About how grief burrows into a family and makes a home there. About how love and ...
Black Girls Lit!
A new year means new energy—but first, we’re facing the mirror. In our first episode of 2026, we step into Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams, a novel that captures the chaos, vulnerability, and raw beauty of a woman on the edge of everything. Queenie is navigating heartbreak, mental health, career microaggressions, family pressure, and a relationship to self that’s unraveling in public—and in silence. The story hit home for all of us. There’s a kind of emotional honesty here that doesn’t flin...
