Super Sad Black Girl

Super Sad Black GirlDiamond Sharp's Super Sad Black Girl is a love letter to her hometown of Chicago, where the speaker finds solace and community with her literary idols in hopes of answering the question: What does it look like when Black women are free? Lorraine Hansberry and Gwendolyn Brooks appear throughout these poems, counseling the speaker as she navigates her own depression and exploratory questions about the "Other Side," as do Sandra Bland, Rekia Boyd, and

Medical Apartheid details the ways both slaves and freedmen were used in hospitals for experiments conducted without their knowledge—a tradition that continues today within some black populations

The approaching end has her thinking about the members of her family she's lost

Devon has never liked playing by anyone else's rules though

With lush prose and perceptive insight

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How do we uphold tradition

the insistence upon innocence coupled to an obsession with figurations of death and hell--are responses to a dark and abiding Africanist presence

Charles was offered a job at Howard University

just not in the way she thought it would

the pair come to see that nature itself provides everything a magnificent garden needs to flourish

where they're known for repeatedly challenging authority

she is by turns wry