Bethany C. Morrow

Oct 17, 2022

What Country, Friends, Is This?

first published on my personal blog in September 2020 When is a comfortable space with like-minded people suddenly considered a useless “echo chamber”? I’m beginning to think, when you’re Black, it’s wherever you have the audacity to find a moment of peace. * This stage of pandemic illness appears to…

Pandemic Diaries

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Pandemic Diaries

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Oct 17, 2022

Ain’t I A Woman*

first published on my personal blog in September 2020 I love husky voices in women, which must be why Ryan’s bullying didn’t usually bother me. It got annoying, the way anything done repeatedly and publicly would, but not annoying in a way that made me feel small or self-conscious (that…

Caster Semenya

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Caster Semenya

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Oct 12, 2022

I Am Not The Help

I saw it again. I wish I could blame being on Twitter at 5 in the morning (mind your business), but I see it all the time, and so do you. [Black woman] brings diverse perspective to [some industry that’s been around a very long time]. [Person of color] celebrates…

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Published in The Establishment

·Oct 25, 2016

Why We Need Real Black Characters By Real Black Artists

Earlier this month, my husband and I went to see Queen of Katwe, the new Lupita Nyong’o movie about a Ugandan chess prodigy, and I was fighting back tears every few minutes. It’s definitely a tearjerker, as an older Quebecois gentleman remarked to his wife and the other couple rounding…

Arts Creators

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Why We Need Real Black Characters By Real Black Artists

Arts Creators

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