Divine Byrd is a writer and attorney living in Austin, Texas with her two daughters. She enjoys traveling, fashion, and cooking elaborate meals her picky family won’t eat.
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Content by Divine Byrd
Interviews,
A Conversation with Nnedi Okorafor
I started writing through trauma, so there’s that. When it comes to my culture, though, I didn’t have to consciously imbue my work with it, it’s just there. It comes up naturally, by definition.
Field Notes,
Filtering Black Art Through White Eyes
It does her story a disservice to repeatedly stop and ask her to filter her culture through a white lens so that her struggles are more understandable.
Interviews,
Are You Listening? : A Study of Enyinna Nnabuihe’s The Anatomy of a Boy Who Never Became a Man
Language, then, is sanctified yet secular—capable of building and breaking, liberating and limiting in equal measure.