The Free Black Women's Library, is an interactive Black Feminist mobile trading library and interactive biblio installation that features a collection of 2000 books written by Black women. The library is committed to centering and celebrating the voices of Black Women in literature. This mobile library pops up monthly in unique and radical spaces throughout Brooklyn, NYC and has also been to Detroit, Chicago, Philadelphia and Baltimore. PLEASE EMAIL me directly at thefreeblackwomenslibrary@gmail.com if you have any questions or comments about this project.

Roxane Gay decided to write about being overweight. It took her to some painful places.

The essayist says her new memoir, “Hunger,” is the hardest story she’s ever had to write.

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