Damon Young

@DamonYoungVSB

founder/eic , senior editor , writer , author , professional black person, pancake enthusiast, will put you on skates

Pittsburgh, PA
Joined November 2016

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  1. 11 hours ago

    Hey y’all! Tune in as I discuss with the brilliant on ’s Facebook live feed. It’s airing at 2pm in London, which means — *doing math* — 9am EST.

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  2. Mar 31

    A profile. My mom would be so proud. (She’d also ask why I didn’t smile, and why the salmon hoodie.) Damon Young on the ‘Absurdity’ of Being Black

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  3. Mar 15
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  4. Retweeted
    Jan 29

    So the tour for WHAT DOESN'T KILL YOU MAKES YOU BLACKER will be announced soon but this is live now and here’s a nice pic of

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  5. Retweeted
    Jan 19

    "Young’s charm and wit make these essays a pleasure to read; his candid approach makes them memorable” — starred review for WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU MAKES YOU BLACKER from . Feeling ... a lot about this book right now. Mostly just glad people seem to be feeling it.

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  6. Retweeted
    Jan 17

    Shit. A starred review for WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU MAKES YOU BLACKER from . So grateful. Thank you.

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  7. Jan 14
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  8. Jan 11
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  9. Jan 8
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  10. Jan 4

    (Also, that was my first ever tweet from this account. Which I guess makes this the second. I kinda suck at Twitter, so I’m just gonna say Happy New Year and leave now.)

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  11. Jan 4

    So, there are 12 Fridays between now and the March 26th release of WHAT DOESN'T KILL YOU MAKES YOU BLACKER. Today marks the debut of . Each Friday, I’ll drop a bit of a preview about the book -- a screenshot of a paragraph from one of the chapters.

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