Putting on Eyres
Putting on Eyres
Putting on Eyres Podcast
14. Sweetness (What You Do to Children Matters)
18 minutes Posted Jun 1, 2020 at 5:00 am.
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This week we honor the #BlackLivesMatter movement by reading Toni Morrison's short story, "Sweetness." This story was featured in The New Yorker in February 2015. Reading books written by authors of color is one of the most important things we can do right now. If you don’t understand someone else’s perspective, you have the power - even the obligation - to learn. Read "Sweetness" online here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/09/sweetness-2. You can also find Goodreads 2019 Books by Authors of Color list here: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/127078.2019_Books_by_Authors_of_Color. If poetry is more your thing, we have a resource for that too: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/collections/101640/celebrating-black-history-month. Not a reader but love television and film? Check out this list of studio films directed by filmmakers of color set for release in 2020 and 2021: https://www.indiewire.com/2019/12/studio-movies-filmmakers-of-color-2020-2021-1202199226/. Transcript available here: https://atticwifemedia.wixsite.com/puttingoneyres/transcriptions