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Janelle Monáe is a creative superstar who has tackled everything from music to fashion to film. And with The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer, she enters the literary world, proving that there’s truly nothing she can’t do.
The Afrofuturistic collection expands on her hit 2018 album-turned-“emotion picture,” Dirty Computer, which dealt with themes of sexuality and self-expression. Collaborating with a team of up-and-coming creatives including Danny Lore and Alaya Dawn Johnson, Monáe weaves together stories where totalitarianism meets resistance.
“This is a story about healing,” writes Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe, an indigenous writer from the Nooksack and Upper Skagit Indian tribes, in her “ancestral autobiography,” Red Paint. The Pacific-Northwest native’s story is one of survival, having first endured sexual abuse at a young age that resulted in lifelong PTSD—but it is also about the historical trauma that scarred generations of women in her family.
LaPointe reckons with a fraught past by weaving together memoir and poetry to create something that feels raw and unfiltered. “Some houses are haunted by ghosts,” she explains. “Our house hangs on to words and stories.” Along the way, she laments how much her people have lost to industrialization, deforestation, and gentrification—but she knows there’s no going back. When one’s spirit is distressed, it can abandon you. And Red Paint offers an important reminder: “Healing is exhausting.
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