Pee-Shy Africa - Southern Africa A girl named Melantho

A girl named Melantho

and essays in this collection have a single common element uniting their wide range of literary styles and genres: they all spring directly from photographs of go-go boys

or a man over-promoted because of his royal birth

Highsmith ritualistically kept a diary and notebook―the former to catalog her day

Centering Black women’s experiences in police violence and gender violence discourses sends the powerful message that

Pee-Shy Africa - Southern Africa A girl named MelanthoIn his stunningly honest and poignant memoir, Frank Spinelli recounts a childhood marked by trauma and of finding the courage that ultimately transformed his life. . . Frank Spinelli grew up on Staten Island in the 1970s to Italian born parents who viewed cops and priests as second only to the Pope in infallibility. His mother, concerned that her son was being bullied at school for being "different," signed Frank up for Boy Scouts when he turned