Courtney Desiree Morris
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Student |
| Occupation | Writer. Thinker. Organizer. |
| Location | Austin, TX |
| Introduction | Courtney Morris is a writer and community organizer living in Austin, TX and Bluefields, Nicaragua. |
| Interests | African Diaspora theory and history, critical race theory, feminism, social movements, pop culture criticism and trash-talking, and things that make one go hmmm... |
| Favorite movies | She's Gotta Have It, Carmen Jones, Chasing Amy, Lord of the Rings (it's true, sigh), Star Wars, What the Bleep Do We Know?, Rockers |
| Favorite music | Miriam Makeba, Joi, Chaka Khan, Antibalas, Ocote Soul Sounds, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Chavela Vargas, M.I.A., Jean Grae, Cassandra Wilson, Coltrane, Bob Marley, James Brown, Peter Tosh, dub/ska/reggae, Kelis, especially Wanderland, soca, salsa, Cibelle, Abby Lincoln, Nina Simone, Tina Marie, Parliament/Funkadelic. |
| Favorite books | Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, The Street by Ann Petry, Writing Down the Bones, Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life, by bell hooks, The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War, by Gioconda Belli, Mothertongue, by Demetria Martinez, Straight, No Chaser: How I Became a Grown-Up Black Woman, by Jill Nelson, Harry Potter Series. |