Black Joy is an unapologetically freeing collection of essays, edited by Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff, an award-winning journalist and editor and Timi Sotire, also a journalist specialising in music and culture. It was recently released in the U.K. on 2nd September so the paperback edition is not yet available at the time of writing this but you can purchase the hardback and kindle versions on Amazon.

I thought long and hard about how best to express my appreciation for this book such that you would be moved to read it. There's still so much ambivalence in the book community towards Black voices and their stories in favour of more dominant white-centric narratives. But to only read those stories is to miss out on such gems as