Josslyn Jeanine Luckett is a playwright, essayist, and occasional preacher from Los Angeles, currently working on her PhD in Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She blogs at jazzhallelujah.wordpress.com.
Josslyn Luckett
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Writing on Public Books
When the Diaspora Is Enuf
Quiet as it’s kept, some of us colored-girl creative-writer types kept our cool circa 2006 when that gelato-dripping, Gita-flipping, Bali-bossa-nova-ing best seller Eat, Pray, Love went multi-multiplatinum. We did not hate, because we knew the truth: we too binge, chant, and passionately blur the pages of our passports with so many stamps from Senegal, Salvador, […]
