culture consumed (November, 2020)

books

• Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta (Medford LGBTQ+ Book Club) ~recent (child/early adolescent during the [1967-1970] Nigerian Civil War) Nigerian lesbian protagonist (fiction)
• picturebooks:
  • the (26) picturebooks which had won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature (Awards and Honors) that I could get and hadn't already read
    
  • 4 ~queer picturebooks -- some from a Publishers Weekly "Reading with Pride: LGBTQ Books 2020" 
  • 3 other picturebooks

tv

• the remainder of S4 of She-Ra

podcasts

• The Memory Palace episode [The House of Lowe] on Ann Lowe, the African-American woman who designed Jackie Bouvier (Kennedy)'s wedding dress -- Thom played it for me because we were on the subject of harboring grudges 😂; it really is an excellent episode (and only like 10 minutes long)