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Highlights: the Beirut Explosion, how the pandemic defeated America, American racism, digital blackface, Simone Biles, the Olympic Games, beautiful pictures of Rihanna, stunning photos of Megan Thee Stallion, WAP, and Padma Lakshmi.
This month’s book, Parakeet by Marie-Helene Bertino, is what I call a handful.
So much happened in the past two weeks, but I tried to ease my way back into the internet.
This week the internet was surprising, and almost all of my picks are about a person.
The internet was kinda great this week and it was filled with profiles and interviews.
The challenges of Blackness and queerness are central in this book, articulated together through the lens of family.
The internet seems to be forgetting that we are in the middle of an uprising, and people are actively ignoring that we are in the middle of a pandemic!
This edition of Quarantine Diaries focuses on five writers, editors, and literary advocates, and their strategies for surviving quarantine.
People are still reeling from Beyonce’s Juneteenth drop, coronavirus cases are increasing as states reopen, and protests continue.
Important Supreme Court decisions were made, some racist branding was changed, and white people discovered Juneteenth, all of which were all over the internet this week.
There were many thoughtful and beautifully written articles on the current protests, systemic racism, and racial and generational trauma, but it was still hard to be online.
Two books that highlight gender inequity and identity, intersecting in imaginative and realistic and always-necessary ways.
The internet was reflective of the world this week.
The internet fully saturated me this week.