Sassafrass + Smoke is a digital hub for BLK women and femme creatives to connect, restore, and build community.

We are fostering a space for black women and femme creatives that expand beyond questions of being represented in the room.

We are invested in cultivating the expansiveness of our community and carving spaces where we can show up as our whole selves. While our experiences as black creatives reveal the structural hardships and barriers to access and opportunity, as writers, actors, producers, and makers more broadly, we are not defined by the violences of erasure or imposed limitations we too frequently experience in the artistic and creative industries.

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For Colored Girls who have considered suicide
For Colored Girls who have considered suicide

It all begins with an idea.

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Love as the Practice of Freedom
Love as the Practice of Freedom

In the essay that follows from that book, Hooks proposes an "ethic of love" as the means by which we might be guided to turn away from an ethic of domination.

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Beloved
Beloved

Beloved (1987) is the haunting novel written by Toni Morrison in 1987. It tells the story of the struggles of enslaved African Americans and the trauma slavery causes. A popular but chilling magical realist tale, Beloved was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1988.

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