Sistah’S Speak


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Sistahs Speak is an anthology, a collection of nonfiction stories, poetry, creative nonfiction, personal narratives, and critical essays from women living with HIV/AIDS. This project seeks to create a space for women to share their stories in their own voice, with an open heart as a vehicle for chronicling the experiences of women living with HIV/AIDS. The goal of this project is to empower the reader, support the soul, and uplift the spirit of women living with HIV/AIDS and the collective communities each one represents.




Essential Guide for Sistahs of Zion (EGSZ)


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Spirituality is the human capacity to know YAH and experience YAH and the degree to which you reflect that knowledge and experience. To say you are spiritual and know that God is love, life, and light and when people encounter you and there is no love, life, and light, then how can you call yourself spiritual? No one but YAH can see what is in your heart, but we can judge the fruit of our tree. We can teach about how we should represent Christ on the outside from his word, but we cannot judge anyone who does not follow his word if we are not following it ourselves. YAHUSHA HA'MASHIACH (Jesus the Messiah) is coming back for a redeemed church-his bride-that he himself has washed clean and purchased through his sacrifice on the cross. We have to work on the inside and outside to truly reflect his nature and be that glorious bride.




Poetic Therapy For A Sistah's Soul


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Poetic Therapy For A Sistah's Soul is a compilation of poetry and random thoughts about love, life, and all that craziness in between. For me it was my release, a form of therapy as I was going through a life change, i.e. divorce. It kept me from acting out and busting folk windows, and setting folk on fire-stuff like that...Praise God! Yes I do believe everybody has a story, but more importantly every woman has a voice, and needs and wants to be heard. I hope this book makes you laugh, prompts you to think about things a little differently and gives you some inspiration. I hope it encourages you to open your mouth, to find your way to express how you feel about the people and things the affect you down to the bone, and know it's okay. Don't hang on to stuff, release it and find your happy. I encourage you to keep God first, pray, and get yourself together mentally and physically because you are your #1 advocate in love, life, and all that craziness in between...BOOM! Words, thoughts, ideas put in some form or order I crave something to free me to soothe my soul I need to express what I think and what I feel I pray these words help me heal I do find some relief in what I write random thoughts put to paper a little humor, a little truth and in some a little spite...uumm remember, I am a woman but I do believe at the end of the day as random as my words may be they too express what you feel what you think, afraid even or can't seem to say




Fan Podcasts


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Starting from the observation of the ubiquity of fan podcasts engaging in media commentary, this book explores three fan podcast genres in which commentary manifests as a structuring form: rewatch and reread podcasts, recap podcasts, and review podcasts. The author conducts a formalist genre analysis of these podcasts, close reading nine case studies to describe how the three genres function and how different fan labour manifests in podcasting. Each case study teases out the themes, style, and formal constellations of the three podcast genres, shows how different fans activate the affordances of podcasting and commentary, and reveals the distinct generic functions of the three podcast genres. This book will be of significant interest to scholars and students in podcast studies, fan studies, cultural studies and literary studies who are interested in fan podcasts, podcast genre analysis, and ways of close reading podcasts as texts.




My Sistah, Our Journey


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My Sistah, Our Journey will help you explore self-love, forgiveness, encouragement, faith, positivity, potential, patience, expectations, your life's focus, setbacks, resilience and friendship. Each chapter focuses on a specific theme and unlocks opportunities to learn more about yourself through the author's experiences and probing questions. This book is a powerful, life-changing resource of self-knowledge. It is more powerful and relevant than any other book on your shelf, because it's about you--your thoughts, feelings, disappointments, challenges and celebrations. As a journal, it will provide you with a source of comfort by housing your innermost thoughts and feelings. Getting them out of your head and heart and onto paper gives you a tremendous sense of accomplishment and means of stepping back to look at how you have arrived at where you are today and a look at where you're going. Take time to discover your purpose, learn from your mistakes and make each step of the road you travel a footprint to give someone else direction on their journey. If you haven't begun the task of introspection, let this be a beginning, a gift to yourself. For those who have made a commitment to a plan of self-discovery and change, let this be a powerful addition.




Sistah Vegan


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Sistah Vegan is a series of narratives, critical essays, poems, and reflections from a diverse community of North American black-identified vegans. Collectively, these activists are de-colonizing their bodies and minds via whole-foods veganism. By kicking junk-food habits, the more than thirty contributors all show the way toward longer, stronger, and healthier lives. Suffering from type-2 diabetes, hypertension, high blood pressure, and overweight need not be the way women of color are doomed to be victimized and live out their mature lives. There are healthy alternatives. Sistah Vegan is not about preaching veganism or vegan fundamentalism. Rather, the book is about how a group of black-identified female vegans perceive nutrition, food, ecological sustainability, health and healing, animal rights, parenting, social justice, spirituality, hair care, race, gender-identification, womanism, and liberation that all go against the (refined and bleached) grain of our dysfunctional society. Thought-provoking for the identification and dismantling of environmental racism, ecological devastation, and other social injustices, Sistah Vegan is an in-your-face handbook for our time. It calls upon all of us to make radical changes for the betterment of ourselves, our planet, and--by extension--everyone.




She. . .


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Ruby Boat, Topaz Sea is an imaginative romance about two kinds of redemption, one from terrible childhood tragedy, the other from personal dissolution. Set in the present day on the pastoral Scottish coast, the novel brings troubled, 40-year-old Ford Graham together with the mysterious wanderer Haddy Langland. On the remote, windy, decaying estate of Dunsmore Hall, amid thrilling and at times dangerous natural beauty, they explore unsounded personal depths. As Ford struggles toward personal honesty and an ability to love, Haddy seeks to construct from natural forces a self with which to transcend profound personal loss. Through various adventures, an effort to save the beleaguered ancient estate, and difficult inward searching, they and other characters approach an affirmation of love, human truths and self-discovery. The tale takes place a step or two removed from absolute realism, with touches of mystery and demonic menace, harsh storms, a perilous rescue, and hints of unexamined realms of human feeling and experience. Ruby Boat, Topaz Sea is about how a man may fail to be honest with women because he fails to understand himself. It's about the powerful force that an individual can become -- Haddy Langland is a kind of character whom you have not seen before. It's about finding a true home. And it's about the power of love to resist the seductive evils of vengeance and transform a closed, incomplete heart into a full one.




Ijamama Speaks: Wisdom of a Black Sistah from the Urban Hood


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Ijamama Speaks is a hilarious satire. Ijamama is a woman from the urban Hood who is accidentally discovered by a feminist magazine, Hot Heifer, after she stood up to a sexist law that allowed men to be topless in public but not women. A published interview of Ijamama in Hot Heifer magazine leads to her cohosting a feminist, late-night TV show, and eventually getting her own late-night TV show, The Ijamama Tell-It-Like-It-Is Midnight Show, targeted to urban blacks, college students, and working-class women. Although very funny, Ijamama Speaks presents meaningful lessons about rightful living and quality living through dialogues of host Ijamama with her diverse TV guests. Some of her guests include Celibate Dude, Lead Belly, Benevolent Angel, Smart-Ass White Boy, Dr. Fartenstein, PumpDaddy, Spiritual Teacher, Bootylicious Queens, Preacher-Teacher, Little Red Rapper from da Hood, and HoneyBaby.




And the Mind Speaks


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THE KINGDOM ON THE BAYOU


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It’s 1971, the world for people in New Orleans ain’t nowhere near easy, but when the struggle took its eye off the Doucette Family for just one night, sisters Josephine, Annette, and S.Bonds get together and throw an old funky shakedown. Family, friends, ghosts, and murderers alike have gathered around their shotgun shack, and The Doucette family is thrown in a boiler overnight. By a stroke of bewitching, vengeance, and luck, the Doucette Family discovers The Kingdom on the Bayou—a place that takes the majestic history of New Orleans and places it in an enchanted swamp where nothing ever truly dies. Whispers, cuss words, and rumors fly through the wind in the Kingdom on the Bayou like beads from parades, and so does magic.