A review by cyanide_latte
Darkly: Black History and America's Gothic Soul by Leila Taylor

challenging dark informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

I'd been waiting to get my hands on a copy of this and now that I have and it's Black History Month, it felt the most appropriate to read right away for this month. I loved this, I needed Leila Taylor's perspective, this has given me a lot to think about, and I strongly encourage all fellow goths to read this and to re-evaluate their perspectives. All of us, full stop. Black people have every right to be in goth spaces, same as anyone else, and those of us who aren't Black should be supporting Black goths in our community. And I feel like this book really can help jumpstart conversation and new perspectives on that. Support the Black goths in your community; you have no excuse not to. Black lives matter. They always have.