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Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, PhD, is the author of the short story collection Blue Talk and Love (2015). She is an assistant professor of English at Bryn Mawr College. icon

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From “Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker”

By Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

Reading writers’ letters is the best kind of eavesdropping. It brings the rush and ...

Virtual Roundtable on “Orange Is the New Black”

By Noah Berlatsky, Megan Comfort, Laurent Dubois, Kaveh Landsverk, Heather Love, Rebecca McLennan, Eric A. Stanley, & Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

In advance of the second season of Netflix’s original series, Orange Is the New Black, which will be released on Friday, June 6, we asked Public Books contributors to share their views on the show’s ...

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