Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry | 
pickBut in 1957, feminism and lesbianism were not necessarily and not frequently understood as being at all connected. That Lorraine made them so was a sign of her holistic approach to exploring her place in the world, and the world itself.
pickI never seem to enjoy the genre of biography as much as I think I'm going to (I've realized memoir and autobiography both appeal to me more for whatever reason). But I quite liked this, at least as much as I have other biographies of historical #LGBTQ people. I knew very little of her going into this and thought Lorraine was a complex, fascinating artist who fought against many different forms of social injustice from the 40s - early 60s.
pickIt feels right to have finished this audiobook on the anniversary of the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I‘ve been crying nonstop in the car during the commute (I have about 40 minutes to look calmer before I teach, whew). Nina Simone sang at her funeral, Ruby Dee spoke, James Foreman spoke. I would like to know more about her partner and that partner‘s subsequent life. I loved this book. I‘m crushed and also inspired. 💔❤️
For my Littens who are queer or interested in queer artistic life, and to those who had a hard time with the beginning of this book, you might want to skip directly to Chapter 5. I didn‘t know so much of this info! Wow. One thing I learned was that Lorraine Hansberry was partners with Molly Malone Cook, who afterwards met and stayed with poet Mary Oliver for the rest of her life. Oh, that Lorraine had lived. 😭😭😭🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
#wearethechampions
The PEN 2019 winners were announced last month. I haven‘t read any of the winning books. 🤷🏼♀️
#marchintothe70s
#HelloThursday! Thanks for doing this, @wanderinglynn !
? I love any genre that is intersectional & feminist.
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About Lorraine Hansberry, before Raisin in the Sun (before she was a playwright at all): “Even when she felt hopeless, a Melvillian glimmer of the possibility persisted. In her writer‘s disposition, one can feel Melville‘s words, ‘Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts gathers her most vital hope.‘”
It‘s glorious in an odd way to hear about Lorraine Hansberry‘s despair—and determination. #writing! Is hard.
I got to see The Sign in Sidney Brustein‘s Window a few years ago at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and to interview dramaturg Lue Douthit about it too. The research I did for my article means that I‘m extra interested in this mannered book. I also enjoy the voice of narrator Lisa Gay Hamilton - especially at 1.25x - but I understand those who are frustrated! Best snippet: Lorraine got a D in #theatre in high school! #history
This just isn‘t work. For me as an audiobook. I find audiobooks hard to follow sometimes and this one just isn‘t clicking for me for some reason.
I‘d like to try this in print form again sometimes. Does anyone else distinguish between dnf and bailed in their head? For me a dnf is now isn‘t the right time and I would like to try again sometime whereas a bail is a nope I‘m putting this down and I fully intend to never pick this up again.
bailedI‘m not sure how to divvy up the blame between the author and the audio narrator, but this was just mind numbingly boring despite its biographical subject herself being so important and so darn interesting! I woke up at the 33% mark long enough to bail.
Found on #scribd on audiobook. This is about the life of Lorraine Hansberry who wrote a raisin in the sun.
She died young at 34 from cancer but was deeply involved in civil rights, feminism and was a lesbian whilst married to a Jewish husband. (He wrote that out of her legacy)
The first black woman to get a play produced on broadway. She sounds so amazing and I‘m excited to find out more #readblackwomen
