Jill Nelson - Straight, No Chaser

This week on Black Art is Lit ,we’re reading Straight, No Chaser by Jill Nelson. Written in a moment when Black womenwere navigating media, work, relationships, and public life under intensescrutiny, this book speaks to pressures that still feel familiar today.Expectations around appearance. Respectability. Who is allowed authority. Whois expected to soften. Who is punished for clarity. Nelson…