hi, have many books by black females that I will gratefully give to your library. will u be in harlem 2017-18. thank u
Hi, yes I will be in harlem in 2018, I am working on securing locations and dates and will post the information here, once it’s confirmed. Thank you!!
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#submission #bookdonations #Harlem #libraryloveGood afternoon,
I just saw your interview with Sandra Bookman. You were great! I didn’t know anything about the library! It’s such a wonderful reality.
Do you have a schedule for NYC? I know you said you are “based in Brooklyn” but where? I also heard you say that you were going to Baltimore and Chicago. I do hope I will see the library before you go. I know there are books I would love to read.
Lastly, I have several books to donate. Is there another way to get them to you besides mailing? Also, Thanks so much for creating a truly positive and exciting resource for all races and genders.
Blessings,
Andrea Anthony
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Thank you so much!! I am working on the schedule for 2018 and plan on bringing the library to different locations in NYC. I started the library in Brooklyn and will open it once a month at a different spot. If you like you can drop off our book donations at the next pop up coming up on December 12th. I will post the information here on the tumblr page shortly. Thanks!!
Uptown Baby, Uptown Baby!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Excited to share with you that The Free Black Woman’s Library will be in Harlem on Saturday, July 8 for a special event happening at the iconic National Black Theater!! More details to come, just wanted to give my uptown family a heads up to save the date!! 😏
Until then get into this perfect pic of the vibrant, gorgeous and amazing writer, actress, teacher and visionary Dr. Barbara Ann Teer who founded this legendary venue in 1968. She was FLY!!! It was the first revenue generating Black arts complex in the US. 💕😍✨💕
See you soon folks, have a blessed Sunday!! 📚🤓💕😏
The last Free Black Women’s Library session was so beautiful it felt epic!!
So many wonderful people came through, over a hundred books were traded and it was so busy I wasn’t able to get photos of every trade and/or beautiful moment, this amazing turnout in addition to the beautiful story telling workshop made it a very special day. Great exploration of “Sweat” by Zora Neale Hurston and “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid.
also got some great footage and interviews for the TFBWL documentary.
Thank you so much to everyone that came out!! Stay tuned for details on the next happening next month in Bedstuy.
Special shout out of love and gratitude to Anais,Taylor and Rachel of the Studio Museum for all the amazing support
Toni Morrison 💕
Maya Angelou 💕
Zadie Smith 💕
Zora Neale Hurston 💕
Alice Walker 💕
Beautiful assortment of Black iconic writers picked up by the gorgeous @mallit313 last week at The Free Black Women’s Library!! So so good!!! 🙌🏾📚👌🏾☺️
If I had a time machine I would definitely take a ride back to the days of the Harlem Renaissance to have a conversation with Black librarian Regina Anderson, the first Black person to head an NYPL branch.
She was good friends with multiple Black icons of that time period, including writers like Zora Neale Hurston, who slept on her couch often when she was in NYC, and Langston Hughes, they hung out for days at a time and made meals together.
A playwright, performer and avid reader - she saw books as a means of promoting intercultural understanding.
She rose through the ranks from clerk to head her own branch and was creator/coordinator of public programming, meet ups, parties, classes, workshops, book talks, political meetings, performances and other events that engaged the community around Blackness and womanhood.
Many of them happened at the 135th branch which is now known as The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. She devoted her life to books and reading, and saw the library as a tool for change/resistance. She sounds like my kind of people. #archives #blacklibrary #blacklibrarian #socialart #publicpractice #harlemrenaissance #blackhistory #timetravel #muse #kindredspirit #freeblackwoman #freeblackwomenslibrary
This month The Free Black Woman’s Library took a beautiful journey uptown!! We had a marvelous pop up session at the legendary National Black Theatre in Harlem where we gathered this discuss the legacy of Black women’s brilliant contributions to art, music, dance and literature. Sending tons of Black Love and gratitude to all the wonderful folks who came out to trade books, visit the library and take part in the conversation!!
Hope to see you all next month!!
Reading Sweat by Zora Neale Hurston at The Studio Museum in Harlem. Thank you so much to them for having me. Today was amazing!!
The next Free Black women’s library is happening Saturday July 8th at the national Black theater in Harlem. Feel free to come through to trade good books written by Black women or just simply hang out in the space and participate in the days activities!!
So I’m really really excited for the next Free Black Women’s Library session happening at Studio Museum in Harlem today. This is a traveling biblio-installation of books written by Black women that I started collecting in 2015 and now have 850 books total.
All are welcome to stop by to check out and enjoy the collection as well as trade books with the library.
Please remember to bring only books written by Black women for trading.
Know that you do not need to bring books to attend or enjoy 😊
The library will be open from noon to 5 and I’m leading a short story telling session/workshop at 2.
I will be reading “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid and “Sweat” by Zora Neale Hurston ✨✨
There is also some gorgeous art currently in the museum so I highly recommend checking out their current exhibits as well, all in all it’s going to be a pretty awesome day, so come through!!
TFBWL BOOKMAIL ♥️🌹
Thank you so much to my lovely friends at @thenewpress for sending me a copy of MOUTHS OF RAIN/AN ANTHOLOGY OF BLACK LESBIAN THOUGHT edited by Briona Simone Jones.
“African-American and Afro Diasporic lesbian writers and theorists have made extra ordinary contributions to feminist theory, activism, and writing. MOUTHS OF RAIN, the companion anthology to Beverly Guy-Sheftall’s classic WORDS OF FIRE, traces the long history of intellectual thought produced by Black lesbian writers, spanning the 19th century through the 21st century. Using “Black lesbian” as a capacious signifiers, MOUTHS OF RAIN includes writing by Black women who have shared intimate and loving relationships with other women, as well as Black women who see bonding as mutual, Black women who who have self identified as lesbian, Black women who have written about Black lesbians, and Black women who theorize about and see the word lesbian as a political descriptive that disrupts and critique of capitalism, hetero sexism, and hetero patriarchy. Taking its title from a poem by Audre Lorde, MOUTHS OF RAIN addresses pervasive issues such as misogynoir and anti-Blackness while also attending to love, romance, “coming out”, and the erotic.”
This gorgeous collection features many of my favorite writers, brilliant literary wonders like Alice Walker, Pamela Sneed, JP Howard, Cheryl Clarke, Jewelle Gomez, Moya Bailey, Pauli Murray, Alexis Pauline Gumbs , Demita Frazier and Pat Parker!!! 🔥🌹🔥🌹🔥