@savalatweets

Author of DON’T LET IT GET YOU DOWN: ESSAYS ON RACE, GENDER, & THE BODY • Simon & Schuster • (at)notquitebeyonce on IG

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Joined March 2021
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New writing: “It quenches a deep, deprived, parched part of me to see, even in fiction, even for only a moment, an entire community focused on the wellbeing of women. ” — @savalatweets link.medium.com/WdTxh0iGMyb

Women and Children First? Why?

There’s a moment in many movies. You’ve seen it: imminent danger, a desperate decision to flee, and someone, usually a man, cries out…

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“If some aspect of your identity is marginalized, loathed, or bullied—as it is for fat people—then you are in definitional danger. Which is to say, you are almost certainly being destructively defined by others. That’s what The Whale does.” @savalatweets savalanolan.medium.com/happy…

Happy Fat People Should be Shouting From the Rooftops

Poet, essayist, and activist Audre Lorde famously wrote, “If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s…

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New Writing: Happy Fat People Should be Shouting From the Rooftops link.medium.com/yOfA7kUrmyb

Happy Fat People Should be Shouting From the Rooftops

Poet, essayist and activist Audre Lorde famously wrote, “If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s…

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New writing: “I want my daughter to know her body as a site for joy, a conduit for it, as joy’s bedrock, as the location where that blessed sensation announces itself again and again.” — @savalatweets link.medium.com/FI0mpUDimvb

5 Things about Me that I Let My Daughter See

I believe in the adage you can’t be what you can’t see. So I make a point to let my daughter see these five things:

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I just published Please Consider the Racial Impact of Your Halloween Decor link.medium.com/wwrfWsUdeub

Please Consider the Racial Impact of Your Halloween Decor

Oh, it’s that time of year again! So here is a PSA to remind you that when your Halloween decorations include hanging fake bodies from…

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Five stars for @savalatweets! "Weaving popular cultural references into her own stories and those of her father and wider family, Nolan joins some of the greatest African American writers who have written from the liminal to make their stories heard." Thank you @hhgsparkles
theartsdesk.com@theartsdesk29 Sep 2022
★★★★★ 'Nolan's words gain power when coming from the side-lines, holding court on the thresholds': #SavalaNolan finds voice in the liminal the subject of a new essay collection Don’t Let It Get You Down @PressIndigoThe review by @hhgsparkles theartsdesk.com/books/savala…
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New writing: zora.medium.com/the-little-m…

‘The Little Mermaid’ Remake is Right on Race…but Still Not Quite Right for Me

Representation matters, and so I’m paying close attention to Halle Bailey’s turn as Ariel, aka, the little mermaid, in the upcoming remake…

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VERY happy to share this exciting news re BOOK 2!!!
Rakia Clark@rakiathegreat8 Sep 2022
Welcome to @MarinerBooks, @savalatweets! We're all really excited to have you on our list! 😊
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New writing: Rejection is real! We should talk about it more. savalanolan.medium.com/lets-…

Let’s Talk More About Rejection

The amount of rejection is staggering. It’s a constant drumbeat. It’s a deluge. It’s drinking water from a firehose, lips right up against…

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This was fun to write :) savalanolan.medium.com/want-…

Want A Better Relationship with Yourself? Find Your Donuts

On Thursdays, I buy donuts. A white box of thin cardboard, the familiar blue cursive of Entenmann’s printed on the corner, the chocolate…

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Biden's Student Loan Forgiveness Plan Doesn't Do Enough for Black Americans

Biden's plan to cancel student debt is not a big or bold enough and it completely misses the mark for Black Americans

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new writing for .@medium, this time on hope and the extraordinary kindness of a stranger savalanolan.medium.com/we-ar…
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Happy publication day to @savalatweets for the UK @PressIndigoThe edition of #dontletitgetyoudown - if there's one collection you need to read this year, it's this! Each essay (about race, gender, class, the body, love, self-love) is a masterclass in non-fictional storytelling💜
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Jon Gluck@Jon_Gluck24 Jun 2022
A characteristically brilliant and powerful take from @savalatweets. savalanolan.medium.com/the-e…

The End of Roe is About Race, Too

I am overwhelmed, but I want to say something about this moment, when Roe v. Wade is gone, when it feels like we are sliding, fast, down an…

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New writing! “It wasn’t long before I understood that its slowness was an offering of love, and very beautiful...Slow is its own magic.” —  medium.com/human-parts/on-sl…
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Great rec from @CosmopolitanUK for our wonderful writer @savalatweets - these essays are exceptionally good.
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New writing: “I want to suggest to you that claiming that ease — marking an interior part of yourself that is simply free and alive, that does not exist in conversation with persecution or maltreatment — is as powerful as any protest or resistance.” zora.medium.com/commencement…

Commencement Advice for Outsiders: Now and Then, Let Go of Resistance

I was invited to speak at a gathering of women of color graduating from law school, and I said yes. Many of the women had been my students…

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A special delivery of DON’T LET IT GET YOU DOWN by Savala Nolan, a selection of essays on race, gender and the body. For fans of Roxane Gay and Candice Carty-Williams. theindigopress.com/product/d… 📷 via Livs Literary Nook on IG
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Chad!!@chaddyreadsbook8 Apr 2022
Thank you so much to @PressIndigoThe for sending me a copy of don’t let it get you down by @savalatweets ❤️
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