Curated links.

Favorite Flash Fiction I Read This Week:

Your Mother Imagines You Dead (Via Fracture Lit)

Favorite Short Fiction I Read This Week:

What It’s Worth Giving Up to Stay in a Family (Via Electric Lit)

Useful Article on Writing:

Good Enough Is Just Fine, More To That

A Book I’m Currently Reading:

Aggie Jordan’s memoir A Woman’s Voice Should Be Heard 

A Paragraph I Loved Reading This Week:

“Perhaps the most mindful way to view the New Year is not to hope for a better future, or to take inventory of the goals you want to hit.  Rather, it may be better spent reflecting on why you hope for the things you hope for, or why you want to actualize those goals you desperately desire.  Because then you’ll have a better understanding of the identity you currently embody, and will realize which parts are worth embracing, and which parts are worth leaving by the wayside.” Lawrence Yeo, A Timeless New Year

Etcetera

• Tech companies are quietly defunding diversity pledges…
• Black women as a whole deserve justice when they’re victims of violence, even if it’s at the hands of a Black man
• How a Town Famous for Xenophobia Fell In Love With Immigrants (Via The New York Times)
• 15 books by Black authors to read this winter
• 62 books by women of color to read in 2023
• The heavy burden of being a librarian…
• Why Qatar 2022 Was Also Africa’s World Cup

Did You Know?

Alongside the Russian, Greek, Eritrean, and Serbian Orthodox Churches, Ethiopians celebrate Genna (Christmas) on January 7 (December 29 in the Ethiopian calendar).