Tag: Shannon

She thinks back wisfully on the woman she never became. The Woman They Wanted tells the story of a girl with musical ability who thought she’d be on Broadway, or an act in Nashville. Instead she ended up at an Evangelical megachurch in Maryland. Like Alice in Wonderland, she writes, sh...

My fellow Afrofuturists Tara Christina, Dera R. Williams, and Shannon Holbrook are not sure what an Afrofuturist cookbook looks like; however, they are sure of the intersection of food, memory, ancestry, and story. Still, knowing these talented women, their gifts for storytelling and their knowledge...