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Kuchenga Shenjé

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Writer of #thelibrarythief & Journalist : @netflix @britishvogue @harpersbazaarus et al. ✒️Represented by Abi Fellows | Contact her via: www.dhhliteraryagency.com/

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

The book I’m writing is titled HOME OUT THERE. It’s about black queer people leaving home to find home. I weave my own experiences with biographical chapters about three black queer poet ancestors: Langston Hughes, Pauli Murray and Audre Lorde.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 07/10/2024

@kuchenga.bsky.social your work is absolutely fabulous ✨

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 07/10/2024

And that’s a wrap! This is one of the best historical novels that I’ve read in a long time. Loved it ❤️

As soon as I read the passage above, I knew it was my purpose to ask the questions that sparked my mind as a Black Briton who always wondered about the lives we led on this island before the arrival of the Windrush generation. That we lived noteworthy lives was without question. But what of the offspring of Dido Elizabeth Belle, Francis Barber, Ignatius Sancho, et al.? Whatever happened to those babies who got lighter with each passing generation? This novel is intended to be an antidote to the intentional erasure of the Victorian colonial project.
The women writers who align with some or all of my identity and experiences have gifted me with literature that spurred me into the confidence to write my own stories. I would not have thought myself eligible to even pick up a pen if not for the work of Andrea Levy, Brit Bennett and Tsitsi Dangarembga.
It is an honor to be able to pick up the

mantle laid down by those who have done the arduous work of expanding the canon. I am only here because of the space you afforded me to write into.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 07/10/2024

Okay now I’m imagining making a bunch of people from the 1820s read this and seeing the scandal on their faces. Knowing how obscenity disciplined speech…. It’s hard not to wonder what sorts of stories like this were destroyed, or never told in the first place.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 07/10/2024

on the edge of my seat right now

"Your family. My mother thought you were Coromantee because they were known as quite fierce. The slaves that always caused trouble. She meant it as a compliment."
I was thrown. She thought I was... So, I laughed. A good belly tickling laugh.
Deep and funny to the point of queasi-ness. Sibyl looked at me with scrunched eyebrows.
Then it hit me. There was pity on her face. She thought I was in denial.
My laughter subsided and all that lay between us was a sooty train that belched out the truth having passed right between us.
"You think my mother was...a Ne-gress," I whispered.
"A mulatto or quadroon at least," she said, far too loudly.
Could it be? Was this even possible? I was quite flummoxed by what she was proposing.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 07/10/2024

Oh shit the midpoint twist 🔥 this book is *phenomenal*

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 07/10/2024

The way that this book is framing conversations about colonial and imperial racism through the lens of the white regency novel is absolutely brilliant.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 07/10/2024