Instagram story viewer> @blackfeatherhideout> Tagged

The Black Feather

@blackfeatherhideout

1.9K

followers

1483

following

Black writer (@relebone ) fan-girling Black writers + their work. Where the writers be.
📍: 🇿🇦
#blackfeatherhideout

POSTS STORIES REELS TAGGED

“Her novels portray the extraordinary things women do for love in fierce, powerful or distorted ways. Morrison also talks about the meaning of love to ‘Ella,’ a character in her Pulitzer-prize winning novel, ‘Beloved.’” (From billmoyers.com)

🎥 Bill Moyers, “A World of Ideas”, a 1988 and 1990 series of half-hour interviews with scientists, writers, artists, philosophers and historians.
📸 WENN Images

396

9

I join other South African writers in signing because watching activists on the Global Sumud Flotilla get kidnapped is profoundly enraging.
Over the last two years we’ve seen Israeli settler colonialists stealing aid. Palestinians burned in their tents. Children shot in the head. Press assassinated. Doctors tortured in Israeli prisons. Enough!

#freepalestine🇵🇸 #sanctionisrael #globalsumudflotilla

23

2

RE-READ SELECTION (Black Male Edition) 🫶🏾📖

I’ve had so many friends, Bookstas, general peeps always ask about what the “favourite” book is and to be honest I can never give just the one answer. Here’s a selection of the crème de la crème of stories created by Black male authors. All definitely will be getting a reread because I fell in love with each book!

Let us know your book that’s 100% worthy of a re-read? 💕

304

26

What better way to spend my time than with my head in a book?

What other things do you do for fun besides reading? Come give me ideas 💡

#sareaders #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #sammikoalareads #booksbooksbooks #lockdownhobbies #thelastfeather #debutauthor #readAfrica #relatable #justforlaughs #justforfun #justforlols #bookishhumor

277

15

The book 'Broken Porcelain' is a memoir written in essay form. It is about a girl child,growing up Black, & living with mental illness. She opens up on the dynamics of being a first born, and the precarity of being a friend, lover, cousin, sister, daughter, employee , artist, & a student, living with mental illness.

We do not exist in a vacuum, the book is consequently about Relebone's parents, siblings, aunts, grandparents & friends. In writing about her love ones, she speaks truth to the fact that no family is perfect, that no person is all good or all bad. Another message received was that siblings may go through the same life events, but, process, internalize, & react to them differently.

Relebone reflects on healing, self care, treatment, social media, intergenerational trauma, & death, in relation to mental illness . In relating her story of internal migration, unemployment, displacement, lack of resources and capitalism, it becomes evident how the personal remains political with Black lives.

The text is conversational, deeply personal, honest, & depicts vulnerabilities, testimony that writing the book was a journey that required going back in time, digging deep into, uncomfortable, and painfull spaces.

Relebone is well vest in the subject matter of living with depression. She expands on it with empathy and passion. The content is well researched, amplified referencing works of various authors, poets, musicians, doctors, and scholars .

'Broken Porcelain' is a significant body of work. A part of an ongoing endeavor in the mammoth task of demystifying the stigma attached to mental illness, esp in Black communities. It is a Black feminist text. It is a a story of hope, resilience and a pledge to continue fighting and managing the illness as best as possible , with medical and professional interventions. .

Many will resonate with 'Broken Porcelain', those who live with mental illness, or have people in their lives and circles who live with depression. The book is not only a conversation starter, but an entire conversation in itself #Bookreview #Bookinstagram #mentalhealth #africanliterature

24

1

"Black girls are made of porcelain"

Broken Porcelain: A mental illness journey by Relebone Rirhandzu eAfrika, published by @blackbirdbooks_africa

Congratulations to you @relebone 🥺❤️

Re ebone! Halala! 🎊🥳🎊

Thank you so much to you and the @blackbirdbooks_africa team for this beautiful box of treats which Oarena is fighting me over already 😅🙆🏽‍♀️ I will most definitely be sharing the love with someone on the page - you know how I do. Spreading the love, one book at a time.

Ya'll - Relebone wrote a book!! Mkaay!! I'm so proud and happy for you beautiful! You know my heart 🥺❤️

Giving Thanks for you, for your life, for your words. You are indeed, your best thing.

🙌🏾🙆🏽‍♀️🥺❤️🙏🏾🎊🥳📚

.
.
.
.
.
#newbookalert #bookmail #brokenporcelain #essays #blackbirdbooks #readbbb #mentalillnessawareness

122

6

“Black girls are made of porcelain.” - @relebone Rirhandzu eAfrika

19

1

Congratulations @blackfeatherhideout @relebone 🎉🎉🎉🌸❣️I can’t wait to find out how broken porcelain is still precious. Thank you for this thoughtful box @blackbirdbooks_africa 🌹

#bookmail #unboxing #brokenporcelain #southafricanauthors

23

5

🐘Happy Friday, Bookwyrms!🐛🐘

Today I'm bringing you a #FamilyStack ! This stack contains titles that reference family. I thought I would have more for this challenge and at least one or two could considered a stretch. Also elephants always remind me of family.

Qotd: What is bringing you joy today?

Aotd: this weekend we are celebrating our oldest turning 13! She's officially a teenager, send help.

🐘Books in the Stack🐘
🐘Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi ✔
🐘Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi ✔
🐘Lilith's Brood by Octavia E. Butler (a brood is family, right?)✔
🐘The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffeneggar ✔
🐘Witch Child by Celia Rees ✔
🐘Gem & Dixie by Sara Zarr (they are sisters)
🐘Bloodchild by Octavia E. Butler
🐘Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe ✔

[I.D. The books listed above are standing in a stack on a table. There is a white magnolia lying on top of the books and a white elephant planter sit to the right slightly at an angle.]

#Bookstagram #FamilyStack #BookStack #BookSpines #Family #Children #Sisters #Wife #Uncle #Brood #Qotd #Aotd #ChildrenOfBloodAndBone #ChildrenOfVirtueAndVengeance #LilithsBrood #TheTimeTravellersWife #WitchChild #GemAndDixie #Bloodchild #UncleTomsCabin #BlackBookstagrammer #QueerBookstagrammer #NonbinaryBookstagrammer

166

9

3

0

The days between the holidays, what a better way spending the mornings in bed with a fantastic read and coffee 🌻☕📖 #booksandnibbles #booksandcoffee #bookstagram #book #booknerd #bookworm #bookme #bookaddict #bookporn #booklover#thekiterunner #livreaddict #livrestagram #bibliophile #coffee #coffeeaddict #coffeebreak #coffeeculture #coffee☕ #flowers #bed #bedcoverset

46

1

“If you listen to [your children] somehow you are able to free yourself from baggage and vanity and all sorts of things and deliver a better self, one that you like. The person that was in me that I liked best was the one my children seemed to want.” - #ToniMorrison •

TODAY is the day! I’m excited and nervous to host you at A Gathering In Honour of Toni Morrison. •
People have asked, “Do I have to have read all her books to come?” The answer is NO. If you’re curious about her and her legacy you are more than welcome. Do that RSVP thing and see you later xoxo •
SWIPE LEFT for details ♥️

40

5