Colored Pages Book Club

Hai hai!! So, this week, we had the pleasure of chatting with Cori Bratby-Rudd, editor of "Under the Belly of the Beast." It was a great time, so chill and relax while we talking about the beginnings of The After School and Dissonance Press, our favorite selections from the anthology, and all the ways marginalized folks can unite to reinvent what it means to write!  Icebreaker Question: 0:07 - 7:50  Cori's Evolution & the Beginnings of Dissonance Press: 8:08 - 41:42 Under the Belly of the Beast: 41:57 - 1:05:47 Be sure to check out "Under the Belly of the Beast" when it releases on February 22nd! Learn more about Dissonance Press through their website: www.dissonancepress.com . Get in touch with The After School through theafterschoolsubmissions@gmail.com, as well as through their Facebook and Instagram!  And lastlyyyyy, join the club and get in touch with us through our website (thesecoloredpages.com), Twitter (@TheColoredPages), and our email (thesecoloredpages@gmail.com)!

The dynamic duo is coming at you this Thursday with an Anthology! "Under the Belly of the Beast" is the first work out of the Afterschool and Dissonance Press. The Afterschool is a writers collective that works to emphasize the living, breathing, communal nature of story telling. It is the brain child of the talented, Ryka Aoki, and with the first edition contributed to by many talented writers and edited by Cori Bratby-Rudd, this anthology "Under the Belly of the Beast" asks the reader to examine the nature of all things...beastly. Join Ako and Marci as they laugh, get off track, and discuss... Introduction: 0:00 - 20:30 Initial Thoughts: 20:45 - 51:00 Favorite Picks: 51:12 - 1:15:48 Join the club and get in touch with us through our website (thesecoloredpages.com), Twitter (@TheColoredPages), and our email (thesecoloredpages@gmail.com)!

Look at us making it into 2020 with a new episodeeeee! If one of your New Year's Resolutions was to read more then girl you are in LUCK because we're hitting you all with a dope interview with the one and only, Jiaqing Wilson-Yang! Sit back in your New Years glow and tune into our conversation about ancestry, ways to funnel anger, Hazel's perfection, and the meaning of the GOOSE!  Introduction: 0:00 - 4:34 Interview: 4:53 - 59:23 Check out Jiaqing on her Facebook or shoot her an email at jiaqingwilsonyang@gmail.com. Check out other books similarly published by Metonymy Press (https://metonymypress.com/) and Brow Books (https://browbooks.com/). Lastly, you can check out more of Jiaqing's work in Nia King's "Queer and Trans Artists of Color Volume 3" (https://artactivistnia.bigcartel.com/product/queer-trans-artists-of-color-volume-3) LASTLYYYYY, join the club and get in touch with us through our website (thesecoloredpages.com), Twitter (@TheColoredPages), and our email (thesecoloredpages@gmail.com)!

Heads up cool kids, this one's a little deep, a little heavy, but very good! So join the dynamic duo as they discuss life, death, and anger in the second half of "Small Beauty". And yes, you guessed it, Hazel is BACK to snatch y'alls wigs in part 2! Intro: 0:00 - 15:15 Summary: 15:30 - 48:30 Discussion: 48:40 - 1:26:30 Join the club and get in touch with us through our website (thesecoloredpages.com), Twitter (@TheColoredPages), and our email (thesecoloredpages@gmail.com)!

Oof chile, we are BACK for another week, this time to talk about the beautiful and melancholy "Small Beauty" :) Grab a snack and set on some mood lighting as we talk about the beauty of melancholic storytelling, Sandy's tendency to lowwwwkey do too much, and, of course, our queen, the goddess herself--Hazel Henrietta Jenkins (Middle and Last name might be slightly fabricated). Intro/Discussion Question: 2:15 - 16:31 Plot Summary: 16:48 - 35:52 Book Discussion: 36:02 - 1:09:19 Join the club and get in touch with us through our website (thesecoloredpages.com), Twitter (@TheColoredPages), and our email (thesecoloredpages@gmail.com)!  

Join your favorite Colorful Duo as we interview Larissa Lai, author of "Tiger Flu"! Listen to us discuss everything from the role of lovers in storytelling, coalition building and collateral damage, and the corporate machines that have been running countries long before the internet. Also, just so y'all know -- Larissa Lai holds a Canada Research Chair at the University of Calgary and directs The Insurgent Architects' House for Creative Writing there. Check her out at https://www.larissalai.com/ Join the club and get in touch with us through our website (thesecoloredpages.com), Twitter (@TheColoredPages), and our email (thesecoloredpages@gmail.com)!

♫ Back seat, windows up, that's the way we like to READ ♫ Anyway, haiiiiiiii, your favorite book sorceresses are back with Part 2 of Larissa Lai's "Tiger Flu"! Grab some wine (or, actually, maybe not...) as we conclude our discussion on this ~interesting~ tale and talk about world-building, the politics of cheating death, our reading habits in high school, and SOOOOOO much MORE! High School Discussion: 2:54 - 18:11  Plot Summary: 18:32 - 46:25 Discussion: 48:26 - 1:13:37 *Spoilers from the Black Mirror Episode "San Junipero" 1:01:44 - 1:02:52* Join the club and get in touch with us through our website (thesecoloredpages.com), Twitter (@TheColoredPages), and our email (thesecoloredpages@gmail.com)! Support Joamette's amazing kickstarter for Power and Magic: The Queer Witch Comics Anthology Volume 2 at (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/powerandmagic/power-and-magic-the-queer-witch-comics-anthology-volume-2) Lastly, play with our friends at Black Nerd Problems at blacknerdproblems.com, @bnplit & @blacknerdproblems on Instagram, and @blknrdproblems on Twitter!  

And the Blerds are back at it again this week with a sci-fi post-apocalypse story. We got clones, we got feminist communes, we got consumptive mother figures, we got predatory corporations, we got regeneration, and we got questions--oh, do we got questions! Join Marci and Ako as they take a tour through this novel and contemplate how to stop the apocalypse with love! Intro/Discussion Question: 1:10 - 18:00 Plot Summary: 18:15 - 50:37 Story Discussion: 50:51 - 73:07 Join the club and get in touch with us through our website (thesecoloredpages.com), Twitter (@TheColoredPages), and our email (thesecoloredpages@gmail.com)! ALSO, play with our friends at Black Nerd Problems at blacknerdproblems.com, @bnplit & @blacknerdproblems on Instagram, and @blknrdproblems on Twitter!

What's good lovebugs?! So, for the first time in CPBC history, we're actually going to be joined by a guest during our discussion section! This guest's name is Curtis and he is the creator of the podcast and website, I Found This Great Book! Join the three of us as we wrap up our discussion of "Dread Nation" and discuss how shamblers lowkey might be the good guys, how Jackson clearly has teleportation abilities, Sue's fall from relevance, and so much MORE! Hypothetical Shambler Discussion: 3:42 - 9:24 Plot Summary: 9:40 - 49:19 Discussion WITH CURTIS: 49:29 - 1:39:42 Join the club and get in touch with us through our website (thesecoloredpages.com), Twitter (@TheColoredPages), and our email (thesecoloredpages@gmail.com)! Support Curtis' amazing initiative to build a directory of Black Mystery Novels at IFoundThisGreatBook.com Lastly, play with our friends at Black Nerd Problems at blacknerdproblems.com, @bnplit & @blacknerdproblems on Instagram, and @blknrdproblems on Twitter!

We know Halloween is next month, BUT we're coming at y'all with some Civil War historical fiction about a zombie apocalypse! Join us while we talk about what we ourselves would do in a zombie apocalypse, the complexities of passing privilege, rude-ass Ms. Anderson, and SO. MUCH. MORE.  Zombie Apocalypse Discussion: 2:58-12:02 (HEAVY spoilers to the movie "Train to Busan" from 6:20 - basically the end of the damn section lmao) Plot Summary: 12:20 - 50:18 Discussion: 50:28 - 1:23:54 Join the club and get in touch with us through our website (thesecoloredpages.com), Twitter (@TheColoredPages), and our email (thesecoloredpages@gmail.com)!

Hello Beautiful Listeners! The dynamic duo is back for our second-ever Colored Pages Book Club Interview. This time our guest is the amazing Joamette Gil, editor of "Heartwood: Non-Binary Tales of Sylvan Fantasy" and the driving force behind the independent publishing company Power & Magic Press.  Join us as we discuss Sailor Moon, the comics industry, Power & Magic Press' various anthologies, and stories that have touched and inspired us. Also! Follow Joamette on twitter @JoametteGil and check out all of the Power & Magic Anthologies on her website: https://powerandmagicpress.com/ Join the club and get in touch with us through our website (thesecoloredpages.com), Twitter (@TheColoredPages), and our email (thesecoloredpages@gmail.com)!

OmgHAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII! Your favorite hosts are back to ~finally~ conclude their Summer Short Series! Grab some Oreos and a nice beverage as Marci and Ako talk about the historic, legendary, and ONLY non-binary comics anthology; Heartwood: Non-Binary Tales of Sylvan Fantasy! Join us as we traverse through 22 forest-filled stories of fun, magic, heart, and transformation. Introduction: 00:00 - 14:45 "The Lungs of Jeju" by Sunmi: 14:45 -17:33 "Blât" by chlove: 17:34 - 23:54 "Expand" by Raven "raveyrai" White: 23:55 - 28:38 "Finding Alex" by Joamette Gil and Corey Ranson: 28:30 - 35:07 "No Vacancy" by Xanthe Bouma: 35:07 - 38:09 "Dear Paloma" by Polly Guo: 38:13 - 49:38 "Shuvah (Return)" by Ezra Rose and Jey Barnes: 49:39 - 55:22 Discussion: 55:42 - 1:26:20 Join the club and get in touch with us through our website (thesecoloredpages.com), Twitter (@TheColoredPages), and our email (thesecoloredpages@gmail.com)!

School is drawing near, but never fear, another episode of the Colored Pages Book Club is here! Join Ako and Marci as they chat about influential allegories/stories from their childhood, colonialist wasps, and what would happen if a historic social oppressor suddenly...disappeared.   Note: There is a spoiler for "Tales of the Abyss" in the intro of this episode. (We know it came out in 2005, but, hey, maybe you're late to the game...literally lol) Note Part II: Ako misspoke -- The murder of Franz Ferdinand, the Archduke of Austria, NOT the Prince of Serbia started off World War I! Intro: 00:00 - 14:22 Plot Summary: 14:45 - 23:30 Discussion: 23:30 - 45:20 Join the club and get in touch with us through our website (thesecoloredpages.com), Twitter (@TheColoredPages), and our email (thesecoloredpages@gmail.com)!

The kids are back for another blerd filled episode of the Colored Pages Book Club’s Summer Short Series! This episode, we will be reading the first volume of the fantasy comic "M.F.K" by Nilah Magruder. Listen in as Marci and Ako discuss fantasy, the concept of adventure, what element we would bend (think "Avatar the Last Airbender"), and who we'd cobble together to defeat an evil boss--a dastardly villain who's trying to ban fro-yo FOREVER. Intro: 00:00 - 14:16 Plot Summary: 14:36 - 25:50 Discussion: 26:04 - 50:55 Join the club and get in touch with us through our website (thesecoloredpages.com), Twitter (@TheColoredPages), and our email (thesecoloredpages@gmail.com)!

Marci and Ako are back with another episode in their Summer Short Series! This week, they’ll be discussing Pornsak Pichetshote’s horror comic, "Infidel".  Picture this--a warm summer night, a smoldering campfire, Marci, Ako, and a mutual friend sitting around a campfire. The friend clicks on her flashlight app and places her phone just below her chin lighting up her face in a very spooky fashion. She lowers her voice and asks the two “has anyone ever heard of the racist ghosts that they say haunts apartments in New York Cit--wait where are y’all going?!” Ako, much to her chagrin, found herself suddenly and ANNOYINGLY abducted by extraterrestrials and Marci, well Marci had immediately called one of any dozen ride-share services and headed back towards town, the ancestors did not get him this far just to get haunted by a ghost story! Plot Summary: 11:30 - 39:34 Discussion: 39:24 - 1:12:24 Join the club and get in touch with us through our website (thesecoloredpages.com), Twitter (@TheColoredPages), and our email (thesecoloredpages@gmail.com)!