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#TBT to this sweet and gorgeous day last year when TFBWL was stationed at Brooklyn Tea Shop
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We spent a cozy afternoon, sipping tea, reading, talking, chilling and trading books.
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For years it has been a dream of mine for this project to have its own space, it’s own wheels, and paid support, and now that I have finally launched my first GoFundMe to make it happen. I have become a bit obsessed. 😏
my posting about it may get annoying and repetitive, but I do believe in the possibilities of these things for us in 2021.
A Reading Room, Bookmobile and Librarian, PLEASE DONATE AND SHARE the Gofundme Link
Thank you!! ♥️♥️♥️
“Hoodoo, or Voodoo, as pronounced by the whites, is burning with a flame in America, with all the intensity of a suppressed religion. It has its thousands of secret adherents. It adapts itself like Christianity to its locale, reclaiming some of its borrowed characteristics to itself, such as fire worship as signified in the Christian church by the altar and the candles and the belief in the power of water to sanctify as in baptism. Belief in magic is older than writing. So nobody knows how it started.” - an excerpt from MULES AND MEN, © 1935 ⭐️
Looking forward to sharing my favorite Hoodoo Stories gathered by novelist, folklorist, legendary anthropologist and TFBWL muse Zora Neale Hurston on Sunday, October 31 at our next TFBWL session in honor of Hoodoo Heritage Month.
Join us at The Plaza at 300 Ashland in Fort Greene, Brooklyn for a special collaboration with our friends from The Center of Fiction.
Folks are welcome to come dressed as their favorite author or character to compete for prizes, as well as bring good books written by Black women to trade with the collection from noon to 5.
See you then!!
We are back at one of our Bedstuy faves for this month’s pop up!! Join us for some freshly brewed tea and liberating literature based conversation on Sunday, December 22nd from noon to 4 Brooklyn Tea
Come check out and enjoy The Free Black Women’s Library vast gorgeous collection of books written by Black women
Bring a good book written by a Black woman to donate or trade.
Purchase a TFBWL T-shirt, button, sticker or poster.
This is our last installation in what has been a long, busy challenging and amazing year.
So grateful for the growth, support and appreciation!!
Sending so much LOVE to all our patrons on Patreon without you this project could not be, thank you so sooooooo much!!
Blessed Black Feminist Thursday Loves!! Excited to share with you that there is a now a mini installation of TFBWL up at JACK, a wonderful award winning performance arts space located at 18 Putnam Avenue in Brooklyn.
From now until late November, you are welcome to engage with this specially curated collection in between, before and after their shows as well as trade books by Black women with the installation. Please check their page and website to find out about all the amazing shows they have coming up for the autumn season. Thank you so much to JACK for inviting us to be part of their beautiful new space and thanks to my dear Naima B for the install assistance!! ♥️♥️📚📚 ⭐️⭐️👌🏿👌🏿
TFBWL BOOKMAIL🖤⭐️☺️
Thank you dear book angel Grace Pickering for sending me two awesome soft covers written by Black women.
These two selections are two of my favorite reads and I’m super grateful to add them to our collection.
WHAT IT MEANS WHEN A MAN FALLS FROM THE SKY, an incredible collection of short stories written by award winning British Nigerian writer Lesley Nneka Arimah and the breathtaking novel WHAT WE LOSE by the Zinzi Clemmons.
I deeply enjoyed both of these books!!!🤩🤩
Thank you so much for sending🖤🌹
TFBWL PHOTOSET: Eartha Kitt Reading 🌹🌹📚🌹🌹📚🌹🌹
Did you know that I launched a GoFundMe for The Free Black Women’s Library this week 🤸🏿♂️🤸🏿♂️🤸🏿♂️🖤🖤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾
( I also started a new full time job, great timing 😭😭)
I am raising funds for a Reading Room, Bookmobile and Staff Person.
I am so grateful for all the support I have received.
Y’all are amazing!!
Drop a 🌹 in comments if you’ve donated, drop a 📚 if you’ve shared the link.
Drop both if you truly believe in the dream and have done both of these things. Thank you!! ♥️♥️♥️♥️
Shout out to my IG reading buddies
@crystalyogi22
@kiyannaloves
@kuetcwge
@sarahatlee
@womanistbibliophile and everyone else taking part in The Free Black Women’s Library Reading Challenge this year. ♥️🌹📚♥️🌹📚♥️
2020 has had a lot going on, so it’s been a slow reading year for me.
Here is a stack of books I’ve read for the challenge this year so far.
Swipe to the last slide for TFBWL reading challenge details if you would like to take part.
I have enjoyed all of the books I have read so far, but I placed a star next to my favorites!!
THE YELLOW HOUSE by Sarah M. Broom - a debut ⭐️
MY LIFE AS AN ICE CREAM SANDWICH by Ibi Zoboi - a book for middle schoolers
SISTERS OF THE YAM/BLACK WOMEN AND SELF RECOVERY by bell hooks - a vintage Black Feminist text, published before 2000 ⭐️
GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER by Bernardino Evaristo - a classic or award winning novel ⭐️
HOMEGOING by Yaa Gyasi - a book by an African author
THE WAR BEFORE by Safiya Bukhari - a book by a political activist or organizer ⭐️
SASSAFRAS, CYPRESS & INDIGO by Ntozake Shange - a book that centers relationships between women ⭐️
MY SOUL LOOKS BACK by Jessica B Harris - a memoir
BLACK LESBIAN IN WHITE AMERICA by Anita Cornwell
- non fiction LGBTQ ⭐️
IN THE WAKE by Christina Sharpe - a book on Spirituality, Religion or Ritual ⭐️
THE HEALING by Gayl Jones - a book that’s features Patois, Creole, Southern vernacular or slang ⭐️
BLACK IMAGINATION curated by Natasha Marin - a book of poetry/prose
Are you taking part in TFBWL Reading Challenge this year? If so let me know how it’s going and what good books by Black women you have read so far!!
Make sure to use the hashtags -
#TFBWL
#tfbwlreadingchallenge
#TFBWL2020
So I can see your posts and re-share them!!
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@kiyannaloves got two of my faves last Sunday at The Free Black Women’s Library!! Major score, yay!!😍😍
#books #bookstagram #bookswap #goodreads #blackbooks #BlackBookwormsMatter #blackwomanbibliophile #freeblackwomenslibrary 📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚
#Repost @kiyannaloves (@get_repost)
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So excited about these two books I got at @thefreeblackwomenslibrary session today at the Studio Museum in Harlem! There were so many great books and awesome people 📖✨
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“After all, my life, as I saw it, was a thing divided in three; There was Brooklyn, U.S.A.,and specifically the tight, little, ingrown immigrant world of Bajan Brooklyn that I had fled. Then, once I started writing, the Carribean and it’s conga line Ig islands had been home off and on for any number of years. While all the time, lying in wait across the Atlantic, in a direct line almost with tiny wallflower Barbados, had been the Gulf of Guinea and the colossus of ancestral Africa, the greater portion of my tripartite self that I had yet to discover, yet to know”
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Recently finished TRIANGULAR ROAD the memoir of award winning best selling bold and astute Caribbean writer Paule Marshall. I make no secret about how I love reading memoirs (of Black women) and this one is no exception. I was quite tickled to find out that like many of our other faves (Zora, Audre, Toni, Maya), Miss Paule also worked at a library. ☺️ And currently living in Bedstuy I can’t help but think about her Bajan family moving and living through the same streets that I occupy in present day. I gagged when she dropped the bomb about attending Hunter college for free as a NYC resident. FREE college y’all!!! Whew!! Can you imagine?!
Most of all she talks about how her life, culture and travel influenced her writing and worldview. It starts in 1965, with her as a fledgling new writer and mother, without any warning she receives an invitation to join the Peoples Poet, Sir Langston Hughes on a cultural tour of Europe. She shares lovely moments from this spontaneous journey and the years that follow which found her writing/living in various parts of the Caribbean and eventually Africa. While traveling she goes through a process of constant self discovery and inspiration. She explores issues of identity, heritage and history, all of which plant seeds for the classic novels she gifted us, BROWN GIRL, BROWNSTONES, PRAISE SONG FOR THE WIDOW, THE CHOSEN PLACE, THE TIMELESS PEOPLE..Her voice here as in her stories is witty, affectionate, absorbing, amusing and real. More than anything it reminded me of the secrets & pleasures that can be uncovered when we remain open, ready and down for adventure!!
Adding this to my reads for The Free Black Women’s Library Reading Challenge - a memoir or autobiography 🖤👌🏿📚
TFBWL BOOKMAIL💗💗
A very generous book angel sent me a box of books that contained some vintage beauties!!
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I LOVE MYSELF WHEN I AM LAUGHING AND THEN AGAIN WHEN IM LOOKING MEAN AND IMPRESSIVE/A Zora Neale Hurston Reader, edited by Alice Walker, introduction by Mary Helen Washington, published by The Feminist Press, 1979
PARABLE OF THE SOWER by Octavia E Butler, published by Grand Central Publishing, 1993
IN LOVE & TROUBLE/Stories of Black Women by Alice Walker, published by Harcourt Brace Javanovich, 1967
FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF/Choreopoem by Ntozake Shange, published by Bantam Books, 1980
IF THEY COME IN THE MORNING by Angela Y. Davis and other Political Prisoners, published by Signet,1971
THE BLACK FAMILY DINNER QUILT COOKBOOK with Dorothy Height, President & The National Council of Negro Women, Inc.
SOME OF US DID NOT DIE/New & Selected Essays by June Jordan, published by Basic/Civitas Books, 2002
Such a glorious stack of heavy hitters, whew!! Absolutely incredible!!
So much gratitude to the person that sent these treats and so much more for The Free Black Women’s Library book collection. 😭📚♥️
I’m hyped to share that with our community via our traveling installation and upcoming Reading Room. 🤸🏿♂️🖤📦📚
Feel free to send all manner of good books written by Black women and Black non binary folks to us at
TFBWL
1072 Bedford Avenue
Box 39
Brooklyn, NY 11216
We are also grateful for zines, chapbooks, comic books, graphic novels, journals and self published works.
Thank you!! 🖤
*Collage in the background created by me.