Author Interview, Blog, Podcast Shownotes

The Magic of Feeling Seen + Deconstructing Happily Ever After: What We Lose When We Embrace Princess Tropes

There’s a special magic in feeling seen in a book – feeling like it was written just for you, to help validate your identity and experience. Maybe you even hesitate to recommend it because you can’t imagine anyone else could love it as much as you. Sally shares a couple of recent reads that gave

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Author Interview, Blog, Book Reviews, Podcast Shownotes

Updating the Required Reading List with Piecing Me Together + The Ever Evolving Media with Iman Hariri-Kia

The episodes begins with Mariquita reviewing one of her new favorite young adult books titled Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson. Piecing me together is a beautiful coming of age novel about a young Black girl in North Portland. Then in the second segment, Ashley speaks with Iman Hariri-Kia about her debut novel, A Hundred

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Darius the Great Is Not Okay review - book cover
Blog, Book Reviews

Book Review: Darius the Great Is Not Okay

(tw: depression, mental health) I have been diagnosed with severe depression twice. I was diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) my sophomore year of high school and, in my second year of college, I was diagnosed with ADHD. Doctors have recommended that I don’t medicate, as the medication for one chemical imbalance may negatively offset

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Mariame Kaba headshot alongside book cover of We Do This 'Til We Free Us
Author Interview, Blog, FBC Box

Mariame Kaba Speaks with FBC for July’s We Do This ‘Til We Free Us Book Pick

Mariame Kaba, director and founder of Project Nia, co-founder of Instructing Criminalization, member of Survived and Punished, and author of We Do This ‘Til We Free Us spoke with Feminist Book Club about the relationship between feminism and abolition, and about abolition in a capitalistic state. Here are just some of the highlights from what was

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Author Interview, Blog, Podcast Shownotes

Artist Advocacy and Flowers with Harold Green III

Feminism is truly for everybody. In this episode Ashley interviews Harold Green III about his books, BLACK OAK and BLACK ROSES. The conversation includes honoring powerful Black people, being an artist advocate, attending Grambling State University, and being a Black man of faith.  Bookstore mentioned:  Semicolon Bookstore for BLACK OAK Semicolon Bookstore for BLACK ROSES 

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