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Sometimes I Trip on How Happy We Could Be (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781538702741)
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x"Hear the dark liquor of her laughter rippling behind her sentences" in this magnetic memoir as it explores a journalist's obsession with pop culture and the difficulty of navigating relationships as a Black woman through fanfiction, feminism, and Southern mores (Saeed Jones). A Roxane Gay Audacious Bookclub November Pick
Named "Most Anticipated Books of 2021" by Buzzfeed and Lithub
Pop culture is the Pandora's Box of our lives. Racism, wealth, poverty, beauty, inclusion, exclusion, and hope -- all of these intractable and unavoidable features course through the media we consume. Examining pop culture's impact on her life, Nichole Perkins takes readers on a rollicking trip through the last twenty years of music, media and the internet from the perspective of one southern Black woman. She explores her experience with mental illness and how the TV series Frasier served as a crutch, how her role as mistress led her to certain internet message boards that prepared her for current day social media, and what it means to figure out desire and sexuality and Prince in a world where marriage is the only acceptable goal for women. Combining her sharp wit, stellar pop culture sensibility, and trademark spirited storytelling, Nichole boldly tackles the damage done to women, especially Black women, by society's failure to confront the myths and misogyny at its heart, and her efforts to stop the various cycles that limit confidence within herself. By using her own life and loves as a unique vantage point, Nichole humorously and powerfully illuminates how to take the best pop culture has to offer and discard the harmful bits, offering a mirror into our own lives.
Author: Nichole Perkins
ISBN-10: 1538702746
ISBN-13: 9781538702741
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Language: English
Published: 08/17/2021
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.29w x 0.80d
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 03/01/2021 pg. 67
Publishers Weekly 05/31/2021
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2021
Library Journal 07/01/2021 pg. 85
Booklist 07/01/2021 pg. 15
Named "Most Anticipated Books of 2021" by Buzzfeed and Lithub
Pop culture is the Pandora's Box of our lives. Racism, wealth, poverty, beauty, inclusion, exclusion, and hope -- all of these intractable and unavoidable features course through the media we consume. Examining pop culture's impact on her life, Nichole Perkins takes readers on a rollicking trip through the last twenty years of music, media and the internet from the perspective of one southern Black woman. She explores her experience with mental illness and how the TV series Frasier served as a crutch, how her role as mistress led her to certain internet message boards that prepared her for current day social media, and what it means to figure out desire and sexuality and Prince in a world where marriage is the only acceptable goal for women. Combining her sharp wit, stellar pop culture sensibility, and trademark spirited storytelling, Nichole boldly tackles the damage done to women, especially Black women, by society's failure to confront the myths and misogyny at its heart, and her efforts to stop the various cycles that limit confidence within herself. By using her own life and loves as a unique vantage point, Nichole humorously and powerfully illuminates how to take the best pop culture has to offer and discard the harmful bits, offering a mirror into our own lives.
Author: Nichole Perkins
ISBN-10: 1538702746
ISBN-13: 9781538702741
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Language: English
Published: 08/17/2021
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.29w x 0.80d
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 03/01/2021 pg. 67
Publishers Weekly 05/31/2021
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2021
Library Journal 07/01/2021 pg. 85
Booklist 07/01/2021 pg. 15
By Nichole Perkins
xNichole Perkins is a writer from Nashville, Tennessee. She examines the intersections of pop culture, race, sex, gender, and relationships. Nichole is a 2017 Audre Lorde Fellow at the inaugural Jack Jones Literary Arts Retreat and a 2017 BuzzFeed Emerging Writers Fellow. She is also a 2016 Callaloo Creative Writing Fellow for poetry. She formerly co-hosted "Thirst Aid Kit," a podcast about pop culture and desire, with Bim Adewunmi, a producer at "This American Life," and was also a co-host of "The Waves" podcast at Slate, which looked at news and culture through a feminist lens. Her first collection of poetry, Lilith, but Dark, was published by Publishing Genius in July 2018.
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