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Blessed Wednesday Loves, so excited to share with you this month’s theme for The Free Black Women’s Library is some what fashion focused as we are exploring the connections between culture, clothing and consumerism!!
Join me Sunday on May 21st from noon to 5 with special guest, cultural scholar, media maven, stylist and world renowned fashion designer Busayo discussing the many connections between culture, fashion and consumerism.
** “Cultural Ownership: the Complexity of African Textiles”**
happening at
Bed Vyne Brew, 370 Tompkins Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11221 from noon to 5pm
This conversation will share a short history of the diverse array of African textiles and the relationship between textiles and different African cultures and traditions. In addition there will be some discussion of the complex and problematic history of Ankara (i.e. Dutch Wax Print), what are its implications for those of us that love the fabric and culture ownership. The history of these fabrics also implicate debates around cultural appropriation. If Europeans invented it and are the primary producers, what makes it African print? Also, what are the ways in which the current production of these textiles fail to benefit Africans. This will be a fun, and dynamic discussion of African fabrics and implication for women who love fashion!
Also the library now has over 650 books by Black women available for trade, please come through to trade books and/or take part in the conversation!!
All are welcome!!
Wishing you all an amazing week!!
Peace!!
This month’s Free Black Women’s Library event is happening Sunday, we’re having a fun and nerdy conversation on the connections between culture and fashion. Exploring the importance, nuances and significance of African textiles, let’s talk color, prints, patterns, tribes, techniques and so on. Come through 😊
Bookmobile in Accra, Ghana
The Free Black Women’s Library Podcast is up.
In this episode I talk to my dear friend Trish about books, language, audre lorde, representation, poetry and the importance of expression.
Please give it a listen and let me know your thoughts!!
New additions to the library 🖤
AMANDLA and MIHLOTI both written by the great South African writer Miriam Tlali (RIP) born in 1933 Miriam was the first Black woman to publish a novel in South Africa and one of the first to write about Soweto, in Amandla she offers a thorough fictionalized account of the uprising which took place in Soweto, June 1976. Mihloti ( which means tears) which contains interviews, short stories and non fiction offers vivid first hand accounts of life as a Black woman in apartheid South Africa. Both books were banned in the country for decades. She received the Literary lifetime achievement from the South African Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology in 1995 and passed away in 2017
Thank you to Mia for this awesome donation to the collection. 🖤 🇿🇦
To donate books to the library, pls feel free to send your favorite books by Black women from all across the diaspora to -
TFBWL
1072 Bedford Avenue
Box 39
Brooklyn, NY 11216
….No Black woman writer in this culture can write “too much” - bell hooks
⭐️ bell hooks appreciation post⭐️
Recently on FB I read some comments by a Black man on bell hooks that were very very negative, disparaging and offensive, he called her writing toxic man hating, destruction for the Black community. His views seemed so extreme and angry. He said he didn’t believe in rape culture or the wage gap. He had a lot of hatred for Black Feminist Thought/Theory. I was going to do that thing were I replied to his comments and then decided not to get sucked into a weird back and forth with a stranger online. I decided to do this instead.
For those interested in knowing about this prolific writer/professor/culture critic and her cannon of work which includes detailed analysis on race, gender, class - deconstructing what she refers to as the racist heteronormative capitalist patriarchy in a way that is accessible and clear, for me has been a case of - iron sharpening iron, she is not a cult leader in my eyes, she offers a sharpening of my mind and I appreciate it.
ALL ABOUT LOVE is my absolute fave.
Last year the folks from @bust_magazine reached out to me asking for a list of 5 books and as you see I had to be a little contrary and give them 6.
I also turned it into a mini writing assignment for myself and wrote out the reasons why I chose each one, I named it 5 Books for Bust and shared it on my Patreon.
Click www.Patreon.com/TFBWL to join
I also spent a couple months looking out for it, and then promptly forgot out about it because LIFE.
They shared my list yesterday 🎉 - “Righteous Recommendations from Olaronke Akinmowo”
it’s a cute teeny tiny feature, linked on my Twitter 📝
But more importantly, I noticed that we can have some serious Word Play, and craft sentences and stories with their titles.
For instance -
⭐️Black futures are filled with thick riotous girls, church ladies and sister outsiders who live secret lives with the stars and the Blackness between them.⭐️
♥️🌹📚♥️🌹