![]() ![]() I talked to my friend Leah Johnson about making space for black girl joy, how familial love is just as important as romantic love, and the concept of breaking tradition when it was never created to benefit you.Įditor’s Note: Leah Johnson was formerly a social media editor for Electric Literature.Īrriel Vinson : You Should See Me in a Crown begins with a James Baldwin epigraph, “The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.” How did you land on this quote? ![]() And she won’t let you forget that she’s a Midwesterner, hailing straight from Indiana. Leah Johnson is a writer, editor, and graduate of Indiana University and Sarah Lawrence College, where she received her MFA in fiction writing and currently teaches in the undergraduate writing program. I rejoiced in the fact that there’s a love story here, and at the end, the black girl wins. I read You Should See Me in a Crown and remembered what it was like to grow up in a mostly-white town. It is honest about systems that need to be dismantled but shows how magic can still happen despite. You Should See Me in a Crown shows queer black girls that they deserve joy. ![]()
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