Episode 3: Lovecraft Country and a little Black Feminism

Cover art by Ms. Salena Barnes.

This episode is part one of a two-part roundtable discussion based on the HBO series, Lovecraft Country. I loved this show. It’s supernatural and fantastical, its characters are complicated and flawed. Its use of audio and imagery is compelling. I haven’t been this excited for a series since Game of Thrones. There are just so many discussion points in this series, making it a perfect accompaniment to my Black Feminism class. This episode is from our discussion of episode five, titled “A Strange Case”. It follows our readings on controlling images and self-definition from Patricia Hill Collins’s foundational text, Black Feminist Thought.

Show notes

Episode 5: https://www.hbo.com/lovecraft-country/season-1/5-strange-case

Frank Ocean’s “Bad Religion”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMpypbtrcCg

Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins (2002)

“For Colored Girls Who Have Consider Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf, Ntozake Shange: https://www.playbill.com/article/in-celebration-of-ntozake-shange-revisit-for-colored-girls-who-have-considered-suicide-when-the-rainbow-is-enuf

Illustrations by Ms. Salena Barnes: http://www.salenabarnes.com/