About
Rae is a Haitian-American writer and educator, born and raised in South Florida. She received a 2018 Silver Medal in the Scholastic Art and Writing Competition for her poem “Red Blood Cell.” She earned her bachelor’s as a double major in Psychology and English with a Concentration in Multicultural and Gender Studies and her master’s in English Literature with a Specialization in Caribbean Literature from Florida Atlantic University. Her poetry has been published and/or forthcoming in Rigorous Magazine, The Anti-Languorous Project, and Strange Horizons. You can find her nerding out over her latest reads @raethereviewer on Instagram and Tik Tok.
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This week has been a great one for blogging. I had so much content to put out in the world and I followed through with it, this time around. Life Update
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Elizabeth Acevedo is one of my favorite authors for a reason. She has this gift of connecting the reader to her pieces in ways that I haven’t seen before. I actually read this over a month ago and I’m still thinking about Yahaira and Camino. Have y’all seen this cover? Wait, did you check the
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Originally posted on Hear Our Voices Book Tours: Hello friends! We are so excited to announce the confirmed schedule for the?The Black Kids?tour! Thank you again to all of you that signed up and helped spread the word to ensure that we filled up this tour with some amazing #ownvoices reviewers! Be sure to visit…
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Lori @ The Reading Fairy mentioned that she really liked my takes on WWW Wednesday the other day, so I guess I’ve got to give the people what they want. WWW Wednesday is a meme that was formerly hosted by MizB at A Daily Rhythm and revived by Sam of Taking on a World of Words. What are you currently
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Welcome one and all. 2020 has been quite the year and we’re only halfway through it. Well, now we’re a little more than halfway in. This tag was created by Chami and Ely Jayne. (Thank you Zezee for including that in yours). I’ve read 18 books so far this year, which is actually quite a lot for me.
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I have some sad news y’all: My local bookstore is closing. I’ve tried supporting them online but they haven’t added any new selections and when I went to their physical location last week, there was a “for sale” sign on the window. I’m sad to see it go and I’m pretty sure it’s in large
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It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these and I really miss y’all. These past two weeks have been… weird to say the least. Have you been feeling like time is moving at the speed of light but also as slow as molasses, or is that just me? Life Update
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I’ve been seeing the Black Booktuber Tag floating around YouTube and I wanted to hop on the trend… but I don’t have a booktube. Instead, I’ll be answering the questions here and tagging black bloggers! Check out the original tag here and the playlist of The Unfriendly Black Hotties taking on the tag. 1. Tell
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Juneteenth is a celebratory holiday for Black Americans. Even though I’m Haitian, my ancestors were also once enslaved. In the same way we celebrate January 1st, 1804 as our Haitian Independence Day, I’ll be celebrating June 19th, 1865 as the day that the last of those in bondage within the United States were claimed their
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Wow it’s been a while since I did one of these. My friends and I have been using the Rave app to watch Netflix shows and movies together while social distancing. It’s been a fun way to de-stress, especially with everything going on. My friends and I actually watched the whole season the first week
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