#theyellowhouse is the best book I read last year. I didn’t expect it, but what a personal story of connection to a city. #sarahmbroom is amazing.
March 21, 2025 at 1:16 AM
#theyellowhouse is the best book I read last year. I didn’t expect it, but what a personal story of connection to a city. #sarahmbroom is amazing.
She ended with reverence to this artist Wangechi Mutu and his work: I Am Speaking, Are You Listening? @sarahmbroom #NALPAnnual #RepresentationMatters #Listen
November 13, 2024 at 7:26 PM
She ended with reverence to this artist Wangechi Mutu and his work: I Am Speaking, Are You Listening? @sarahmbroom #NALPAnnual #RepresentationMatters #Listen
“Look at the uniforms and colors of people beyond the edges of the map. Notice them.” @sarahmbroom #NALPAnnual
November 13, 2024 at 6:21 PM
“Look at the uniforms and colors of people beyond the edges of the map. Notice them.” @sarahmbroom #NALPAnnual
“The displacement continues.” - @sarahmbroom. “For those of us for whom looking is a choice, who can choose to look at the underbelly-I ask you to travel beyond the edges of the maps.” #NALPAnnual
November 13, 2024 at 6:03 PM
“The displacement continues.” - @sarahmbroom. “For those of us for whom looking is a choice, who can choose to look at the underbelly-I ask you to travel beyond the edges of the maps.” #NALPAnnual
Oh! @sarahmbroom received a call from her grandmother the waters were rising & they were calling for help. Then she didn’t hear from her again. 30 days later they found her-in a nursing home in TX where she died. #Katrina #NALPAnnual
November 13, 2024 at 5:46 PM
Oh! @sarahmbroom received a call from her grandmother the waters were rising & they were calling for help. Then she didn’t hear from her again. 30 days later they found her-in a nursing home in TX where she died. #Katrina #NALPAnnual
.@sarahmbroom addresses Hurricane Katrina-“Katrina hit and THEN the levees broke. In that order. It was that negligence that caused the tearing apart of families.” #NALPAnnual
November 13, 2024 at 5:30 PM
.@sarahmbroom addresses Hurricane Katrina-“Katrina hit and THEN the levees broke. In that order. It was that negligence that caused the tearing apart of families.” #NALPAnnual
Her father played the trombone (but died when she was 6 mos old) & her mother hand-sewed clothes.
Even after leaving the yellow house @sarahmbroom said she still felt tethered to it. #NALPAnnual
Even after leaving the yellow house @sarahmbroom said she still felt tethered to it. #NALPAnnual
November 13, 2024 at 5:12 PM
Her father played the trombone (but died when she was 6 mos old) & her mother hand-sewed clothes.
Even after leaving the yellow house @sarahmbroom said she still felt tethered to it. #NALPAnnual
Even after leaving the yellow house @sarahmbroom said she still felt tethered to it. #NALPAnnual
@sarahmbroom "Me & my siblings were fascinated by the "quicksand" all around us--but really we were just surrounded by mud on all sides in New Orleans East." #NALPAnnual
November 13, 2024 at 4:13 PM
@sarahmbroom "Me & my siblings were fascinated by the "quicksand" all around us--but really we were just surrounded by mud on all sides in New Orleans East." #NALPAnnual
@sarahmbroom "As a child I was fascinated by the yellow house-how the doors and windows locked and kept others out. I knew. as a child whatever your view from the window or where you slept at night determined your place and positioning in this world." - @sarahmbroom
November 13, 2024 at 3:52 PM
@sarahmbroom "As a child I was fascinated by the yellow house-how the doors and windows locked and kept others out. I knew. as a child whatever your view from the window or where you slept at night determined your place and positioning in this world." - @sarahmbroom
@sarahmbroom Turns out @sarahmbroom's father and brother worked in the NASA plant there-where NASA built Stage 1 rocket boosters. #NALPAnnual
November 13, 2024 at 3:27 PM
@sarahmbroom Turns out @sarahmbroom's father and brother worked in the NASA plant there-where NASA built Stage 1 rocket boosters. #NALPAnnual
From the very beginning, no one could agree on what to call New Orleans East. We know namelessness is a form of naming. 40K acres bought by a TX firm (run by millionaires) called New Orleans East Inc. We just call it the East. - @sarahmbroom #NALPAnnual
November 13, 2024 at 3:11 PM
From the very beginning, no one could agree on what to call New Orleans East. We know namelessness is a form of naming. 40K acres bought by a TX firm (run by millionaires) called New Orleans East Inc. We just call it the East. - @sarahmbroom #NALPAnnual
"But really? We had come across the French Quarter, Garden District and Uptown to come to broken desks in a trailer classroom with broken AC-at Jefferson Davis Elementary School?" @sarahmbroom
November 13, 2024 at 2:58 PM
"But really? We had come across the French Quarter, Garden District and Uptown to come to broken desks in a trailer classroom with broken AC-at Jefferson Davis Elementary School?" @sarahmbroom
In 4th grade, @sarahmbroom was told during a field trip to the French Quarter that this area was our history-where our ancestors had emerged in this city. Our teachers imprinted on us that we spread out across this city as if by magic or fate... #NALPAnnual
November 13, 2024 at 2:44 PM
In 4th grade, @sarahmbroom was told during a field trip to the French Quarter that this area was our history-where our ancestors had emerged in this city. Our teachers imprinted on us that we spread out across this city as if by magic or fate... #NALPAnnual
“But When you come from a mythologized place, as I do, who are you in that story?” @sarahmbroom #NALPAnnual
November 13, 2024 at 2:29 PM
“But When you come from a mythologized place, as I do, who are you in that story?” @sarahmbroom #NALPAnnual
@sarahmbroom @SarahMBloom Oh! @sarahmbroom and her brother both worked in the French Quarter as teenagers, travelling over an hour by bus to get to work. Her brother worked as a chef in this very hotel (@SheratonNOLA), along with 2 other jobs. #NALPAnnual
November 13, 2024 at 2:14 PM
@sarahmbroom @SarahMBloom Oh! @sarahmbroom and her brother both worked in the French Quarter as teenagers, travelling over an hour by bus to get to work. Her brother worked as a chef in this very hotel (@SheratonNOLA), along with 2 other jobs. #NALPAnnual
@sarahmbroom @SarahMBloom "Look farther than the official civil rights plaques in New Orleans-the residue and traces of racism exist in these buildings' design, floors, walls, and soil. It won't be described anywhere or on your horse-drawn carriage rides." @sarahmbroom
November 13, 2024 at 1:58 PM
@sarahmbroom @SarahMBloom "Look farther than the official civil rights plaques in New Orleans-the residue and traces of racism exist in these buildings' design, floors, walls, and soil. It won't be described anywhere or on your horse-drawn carriage rides." @sarahmbroom
@sarahmbroom @SarahMBloom Growing up, Canal Street (where this hotel sits) was a through line says @sarahmbroom --literally a neutral ground with French, Spanish, Creole and Europeans on the French Quarter side and Americans on the business side. #NALPAnnual
November 13, 2024 at 1:13 PM
@sarahmbroom @SarahMBloom Growing up, Canal Street (where this hotel sits) was a through line says @sarahmbroom --literally a neutral ground with French, Spanish, Creole and Europeans on the French Quarter side and Americans on the business side. #NALPAnnual
@sarahmbroom @SarahMBloom .@sarahmbroom says she loves those edges beyond the map because that's where she grew up--in New Orleans East. #NALPAnnual
November 13, 2024 at 12:58 PM
@sarahmbroom @SarahMBloom .@sarahmbroom says she loves those edges beyond the map because that's where she grew up--in New Orleans East. #NALPAnnual
to live" @sarahmbroom
November 13, 2024 at 12:42 PM
to live" @sarahmbroom
@sarahmbroom @SarahMBloom "The cartographer tells us where & how to look. They frame and edit our landscapes-we cannot see beyond the edges of the map on paper but beyond the edges lie the places not known enough to describe, the edges where as a writer, thinker & human being I love...
November 13, 2024 at 12:20 PM
@sarahmbroom @SarahMBloom "The cartographer tells us where & how to look. They frame and edit our landscapes-we cannot see beyond the edges of the map on paper but beyond the edges lie the places not known enough to describe, the edges where as a writer, thinker & human being I love...
@sarahmbroom "Love contains so much. The opposite of love is not hate but indifference. I want to explore love the way the writer James Baldwin said-I love America more than any other country in the world but for this reason I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually."...
November 13, 2024 at 11:29 AM
@sarahmbroom "Love contains so much. The opposite of love is not hate but indifference. I want to explore love the way the writer James Baldwin said-I love America more than any other country in the world but for this reason I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually."...
@sarahmbroom "But this idea of New Orleans as the magical place that can be everything you want to be can suffocate the very people who make your fantasy possible. These are the people I like to focus and write on." @sarahmbroom #NALPAnnual
November 13, 2024 at 11:15 AM
@sarahmbroom "But this idea of New Orleans as the magical place that can be everything you want to be can suffocate the very people who make your fantasy possible. These are the people I like to focus and write on." @sarahmbroom #NALPAnnual
"New Orleans is one of the most mythologized cities on earth, ripe for all manner of human projections....it can morph to become whatever it is you need or think you need to know." - @sarahmbroom
November 13, 2024 at 11:03 AM
"New Orleans is one of the most mythologized cities on earth, ripe for all manner of human projections....it can morph to become whatever it is you need or think you need to know." - @sarahmbroom
Author @sarahmbroom (The Yellow House) welcomes us to her native New Orleans!
November 13, 2024 at 10:34 AM
Author @sarahmbroom (The Yellow House) welcomes us to her native New Orleans!
We will get through this by reading great new books. Please support your local bookseller. Wishing you good health, excellent reading & peace for our worlds. @mcnallyjackson @jiatolentino @SamanthaJPower @JasonReynolds83 @DrIbram @knguyen @KieseLaymon @sarahmbroom @mirajacob
November 25, 2024 at 4:35 PM
We will get through this by reading great new books. Please support your local bookseller. Wishing you good health, excellent reading & peace for our worlds. @mcnallyjackson @jiatolentino @SamanthaJPower @JasonReynolds83 @DrIbram @knguyen @KieseLaymon @sarahmbroom @mirajacob