June 2020 – Page 249 – The Secret Butterfly

To Be Young, Gifted, Black—and Lesbian

Posted by The Secret Butterfly | June 2, 2020 | Fashion News | 0 |

I read Octavia Butler’s celebrated Afro-futurist novel Kindred for the first time in my ninth grade English class, and I loved it immediately. First published in 1979, Kindred is about a young Black woman, Dana, who...

I Know My Name Means Black—So You Can Stop Telling Me

Posted by The Secret Butterfly | June 2, 2020 | Fashion News | 0 |

I was sitting cross-legged in an assembly hall, surrounded by my fellow ninth graders, many of whom I didn’t know, when it happened: The loudest guy in the class pointed at me, laughing, and said, “Your name’s...