Super Sad Black Girl

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Diamond Sharps Super Sad Black Girl is a love letter to her hometown of Chicago, where her speaker finds solace and community with her literary idols in the hopes of answering the question: What does it look like when Black women are free

Lorraine Hansberry and Gwendolyn Brooks appear throughout, counseling the speaker as she navigates her own depression and exploratory questions about the Other Side, as do Sandra Bland, Rekia Boyd, and other Black women who have been murdered by police violence.

is a compassionate and ethereal depiction of mental illness from a promising and powerful poet.

Author Bio

Diamond Sharp is a writer from Chicago and an alumna of Wellesley College. She is an editor at Bandcamp and a former editor at Rookie. Her work has been featured on Chicago Public Radio and Poetry Foundation, as well as in New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, PANK, and elsewhere.