Black Joy Playbook

Black Joy PlaybookBy: Tracey Michae'l Lewis Giggetts Reclaim your joy with this beautifully designed and thoughtful playbook from the author of the NAACP Image Award winner Black Joy. We have an ancestral mandate to hold not just the pain and trauma of our experiences as Black people, but to hold the joy and love and peace that is also ours. Joy is a weapon, not only for resistance, but also a means for healinga powerful tool that is all encompassing and necessary.

with the backing of China’s Empress Dowager

Surfing only looks like a sport

she decides to start acting like the women in her favorite rom-coms

describing his subjects’ moral compromises and often ingenious ways of engaging a crooked bureaucracy to show how the Kremlin sustains its authoritarianism

group therapy

They cope with their grief and solitude as widows do: they travel the world

"As funny and tender as it could ever be

and her own heart

Why did these disparate individuals come together

See the wind blow the leaves off the page

And now Lennox is on the lam and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe

each living creature has a unique role to play in the life of planet Earth