The inaugural First Draft podcast! A discussion with the lovely Sumayyah Daud, 24-year old author of the forthcoming BEGIN AGAIN, about radical happiness, Bill Shakespeare’s butt jokes, and #WeNeedDiverseBooks.

Show Notes:

N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

Audre Lorde A Litany For Survival and Sister Outsider

NaNoWriMo = National Novel Writing Month

Donna Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century.”

Charlotte Dacre Zofloya

Daniel Jose Older’s Shadowshaper

Sumayyah’s blog post at YA Highway, “I’m Still Here”t