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Category: Enclaves: A Black Femme Dreams

Cover of 'The Memory Librarian' book (2022). Features an edited image of Janelle Monae from 'Dirty Computer' (2018). (2022)
  • Enclaves: A Black Femme Dreams

Review: ‘The Memory Librarian’ (2022)

  • Liza Wemakor
  • Posted on May 4, 2022May 4, 2022

With six stories ranging from micro-fiction to novella in length, The Memory Librarian (2022) extends…

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This is a thematic poster of the 'Starkeisha' film. It shows mirror images of the main character, one with a short black afro and the other with straight, black hair.
  • Enclaves: A Black Femme Dreams

Black Girls and Mirrors: A Review of ‘Starkeisha’ (2022)

  • Liza Wemakor
  • Posted on April 1, 2022March 30, 2022

What’s on the other side of this will… it’ll ruin you forever. — Starkeisha’s Reflection…

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Illustration of two people laying in a field of mushrooms, in a romantic embrace. The people are a monchromatic blue and the mushrooms are shades of pink.
  • Enclaves: A Black Femme Dreams

Love Letter #1

  • Liza Wemakor
  • Posted on March 3, 2022February 19, 2022

“But there are couples who find it sheer bliss to be spending a lifetime with…

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Front cover of Adesina Brown's novel, 'Where The Rain Cannot Reach.' The image shows a dagger piercing a large, red sun. A smaller yellow sun is shown behind the dagger's hilt. The background is black.
  • Enclaves: A Black Femme Dreams

Review: ‘Where the Rain Cannot Reach’ by Adesina Brown

  • Liza Wemakor
  • Posted on February 3, 2022February 19, 2022

Published by Atmosphere Press in December 2021. 318 pages. My personal notes for Where The…

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Promotional poster of 'Passing' (dir. Rebecca Hall, 2021); The image is split between black (left) and white (right), with Irene (played by Tessa Thompson) on the left and Clare (played by Ruth Negga) on the right.
  • Enclaves: A Black Femme Dreams

Notes on Mermaids and Passing As Human

  • Liza Wemakor
  • Posted on January 5, 2022

    Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things,…

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Banner of the Criterion Channel's Afrofuturism Collection. A stylized collage of elements from various films in the collection.
  • Enclaves: A Black Femme Dreams

Short Films In The Criterion Channel’s Afrofuturism Collection

  • Liza Wemakor
  • Posted on December 3, 2021December 4, 2021

Criterion’s Afrofuturism collection (finely curated by Ashley Clark) has been on my to-watch list for…

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This is a photo of a musician, Spellling. She has brown skin and a slight build. Her hair is dark, and pulled back. She holds her hand to the side of her mouth, with her palm facing the camera. Her reflection is warped by the mirror on the right side of the image.
  • Enclaves: A Black Femme Dreams

When In Autumn: Black Witch Sounds (An Album Playlist)

  • Liza Wemakor
  • Posted on November 4, 2021November 3, 2021

Fall is well underway, so my imagination is full of dust, candles, tinctures, and parallel…

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Hushpuppy confronts a mythical auroch
  • Enclaves: A Black Femme Dreams

Daddy’s Dying: Notes on ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’

  • Liza Wemakor
  • Posted on October 6, 2021

Beasts of the Southern Wild (dir. Benh Zeitlin, 2012) wasn’t originated by Black people, and…

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  • Enclaves: A Black Femme Dreams

The Spectacular, Black America and Palestine

  • Liza Wemakor
  • Posted on September 3, 2021September 1, 2021

Some performances take over. Some performers cover reality in a blanket of mist and stomp…

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'The Unbroken' by C.L. Clark
  • Enclaves: A Black Femme Dreams

Empire and Betrayal in ‘The Unbroken’

  • Liza Wemakor
  • Posted on August 4, 2021August 4, 2021

*No Major Spoilers In the preface of Frantz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth (1961), Jean-Paul…

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