What We’re Reading at BCRW, the Throwback Edition

For our October edition of What We’re Reading at BCRW series, we have taken a nostalgic turn. All of our suggestions on books, movies, tv shows, music this time around are recommendations to our 18-year-old selves. What culture bites do we wish we’d been consuming as incoming college freshman or newly independent adults?

Carly, Che and Tina all recommend Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Buffy is a favorite of ours for a lot of reasons, but Tina put it well: “Had I had the Buffy series in my life at age 18, I would have been fierce. Buffy is deeply queer, deeply feminist, deeply fierce!”

Carly and DaMonique love love Friday Night Lights. It’s a heartfelt, seriously good drama series that is about so much more than football. Carly credits FNL with providing her enough emotional support to make it through the final edits of her senior thesis.

DaMonique also thinks all college kids should check out A Different World.

And now, we bring you an onslaught of book recommendations.

DaMonique has been reading and rereading Loraine Hainburry’s To Be Young, Gifted and Black all summer. (Also, check out Nina Simone’s song of the same name!)

Avi recommends Two or Three Things I Know for Sure by Dorothy Allison. According to Avi, Allison’s book insists that the experiences and knowledge from our lives—particularly our embodied knowledge—is valuable and worthy of consideration, especially in intellectual environments.

Tami provided us these offerings: “I’d recommend reading Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart to my younger self. It’s beautifully written and gives an introduction to many of the themes (race, colonialism, violence—structural and otherwise) that would come to shape my academic work.”

Che found Janet Mock’s Redefining Realness engaging, in every sense of the word.

Melissa often finds herself returning to the beautiful, wise prose of All About Love by bell hooks. (Seriously, check out All About Love’s goodreads quotes page.)

Emma loved Calling Dr. Laura, a graphic novel by Nicole J. Georges.

Dania recommends Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde.

On the music front, Tami gave us this: “I think all people attempting something exciting and potentially scary (like starting college!) should listen to Sondre Lerche’s ‘Everyone’s Rooting for You’.”

And Kat recommends the thoughtful sex-positivity of Betty Dodson and Carlin Ross’s web series.

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