Traci Thomas

@bitracial.bsky.social

Book person. Creator and host of The Stacks. Also sports and snacks.

We’re reading WATCHMEN for The Stacks Book Club this month. I’d never read it before. So this week I read it and watched the HBO series (again) and now it’s the only thing I want to think about. It’s my whole personality.

It's like when your old favorite club has a shooting, or some racist incident where a security guard keeps out a group of black dudes for wearing Jordans. Yeah, we had some *great* times there but it's time to move on and find somewhere else to hang out. Guess this might be the new hangout.

Self-promotion makes me feel so uncomfortable. I hate that I have to do it, but the truth is as a Black woman indie podcaster in books, I have no choice. It makes me a little sad.

That JJ Redick clip is 100% spot on. I’m gonna just say it, this whole Ja stuff ain’t about guns, it’s about race and punishment. It’s about keeping young cocky Black boys in their place.

I just got asked for books about dudes “living their lives, climbing the corporate ladder, falling in love, fucking up their marriages” basically the make equivalent to (the hated genre) chick-lit. Y’all have any recs? I’m drawing a blank.