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by Sharon Mitchell | Mar 4, 2014 | Academy Award, beauty, Dark Girls, Lupita Nyong'o, WOC, women of color

Ek’abo Ebi! (Welcome Family!)That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And...

THANK YOU, MS. BUTLER!

by Sharon Mitchell | Feb 25, 2014 | fantasy, influence, Octavia Butler, sci-fi, speculative fiction, WOC, writer

Ek’abo Ebi! (Welcome Family!) It was the late 1990’s.  Sitting at my desk at work, I was twiddling my thumbs, waiting for an attorney to call me with my next assignment.  Suddenly the phone rings. A friend of mine was on the line. “Guuurl I...

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