ByHannah Giorgis

Hannah Giorgis has read every single Nicholas Sparks book and sobbed embarrassingly through all of them. She is a writer and organizer based in New York, but you can follow her on the interwebz @ethiopiennesays or on Tumblr.

  1. Beyond the Lights: Scripting Black Love in a Time of Protest

    ByHannah Giorgis

    in Movies

    The first time I saw Love & Basketball, I was convinced that tallest-girl-in-school-but-still-not-an-athlete me could be the female Magic Johnson. To this day the friend who first taught me to play marvels at how I could have possibly thought to shoot the ball and then jump. But Love & Basketball taught me to believe in my own ability, questionable court skills be damned. I saw myself in the precocious, ambitious Monica. She was committed to…

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