The Free Black Women's Library

The Free Black Women’s Library: features a collection of 4000 books, a monthly reading club, weekly book swap & Reading Room in Bedstuy, Brklyn. ♥️📚

[The Free Black Women's Library @TFBWL]

@jatella Wow 😕

[hot girl midsommar @verymimi]

the reason clothes looked & performed better in the 60’s & early 70’s is because they were being made in more reasonable quantities by union workers who were being paid a livable wage to construct them to human proportions & not slaves who were abused to meet production deadlines

[Rightify Ghana @RightifyGhana]

Anti-LGBTQ Bill: Samia Nkrumah - daughter of Kwame Nkrumah, first President of Ghana - is urging President Akufo-Addo @nakufoaddo not to assent to the "brutal, harsh, unjust law."

In an interview with @Graphicgh, she said "we don't need it" as we need to protect eachother.

[Princess @themultiplemom]

Gentle reminder: You don’t have to understand people’s experiences to be kind. Kindness doesn’t require logic, it requires grace.

[WE HAVE NO FRIENDS/BY ANY MEME NECESSARY @CLG98264897]

Kortnee Solomon.

[💚 @notjustcart00ns]

Janice Burgess, creator of The Backyardigans has sadly passed away at 72. Beyond creating that show, she was the vice president of Nick Jr, and had a hand in many Nick/Nick Jr shows, such as Gullah Gullah Island, Bubble Guppies, Tania, Winx Club, and many more. RIP 💚

[daisy @weltonsmac]

omg the story of how colman domingo met his husband is just so incredible and precious ♥️

[The Free Black Women's Library @TFBWL]

I’ve decided to do upload a video on every book I read for The Free Black Women’s Library Reading Challenge. Here is my video for book two of 2024 -
Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers #reading #TFBWL #blackbooks

https://t.co/zMD6QgJNl9

[• @chaoticblkgirl]

i dont like this narrative that black people dont like the movie or premise because we’re not smart enough or too ignorant to understand. like i really don’t like that at all.

[🇪🇹From River To Sea @JenniferRoseNYC]

I’ve been doing natural hair for 23 years. This is a falsehood. A fallacy. Pure mendacity. Most of my clients faced the most pushback from their fathers and Black husbands. Y’all not gon’ start rewriting natural hair history on my watch.

[The Free Black Women's Library @TFBWL]

12 books I read for 2023 The Free Black Women’s Library Reading Challenge
#booktube
#reading
#TFBWL
Rambly Recap(Part 2)

https://t.co/hQKVuk4u5y

[The Free Black Women's Library @TFBWL]

12 books I read in 2023 for The Free Black Women’s Library Reading Challenge

#youtube #reading #booklove

A Rambly Recap (Part 1) #reading #goodreads
https://t.co/a0CWYmR3IZ

[The Free Black Women's Library @TFBWL]

TFBWL #READING CHALLENGE RECOMMENDATIONS 📚🎉

A BOOK BY A COMMUNITY ACTIVIST/ORGANIZER:

ARE PRISONS OBSOLETE by Angela Davis
THE WAR BEFORE by Safiya Bukhari
WE DO THIS ‘TIL WE FREE US by Mariame Kaba
ASSATA by Assata Shakur
A TASTE OF POWER by Elaine Brown

#TFBWL

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TFBWL #READING CHALLENGE RECCS

SEX/GENDER (NF)
THE POETICS OF DIFFERENCE by Mecca Sullivan
MOUTHS OF RAIN by Briona Jones
THE INVENTION OF WOMEN by Oyeronke Oyewumi
REFUSING COMPULSORY SEXUALITY by Sherronda J. Brown
THE SEX LIVES OF AFRICAN WOMEN by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah

[The Free Black Women's Library @TFBWL]

TFBWL READING CHALLENGE RECOMMENDATIONS 📚🎉

5 MEMOIRS or AUTOBIOGRAPHIES

BONE BLACK/MEMORIES OF GIRLHOOD by bell hooks
FINDING ME by Viola Davis
SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER by Ashley C. Ford
THE YELLOW HOUSE by Sarah M. Broome
DUST TRACKS ON THE ROAD by Zora Neale Hurston
#TFBWL

[The Free Black Women's Library @TFBWL]

TFBWL READING CHALLENGE RECOMMENDATIONS

5 ESSAY COLLECTIONS

SISTER OUTSIDER by Audre Lorde

BAD FEMINIST by Roxane Gay

SOMETIMES I TRIP ON HOW HAPPY WE COULD BE by Nichole Perkins

CIVIL WARS by June Jordan

THICK AND OTHER ESSAYS by Tressie McMillan Cottom

#TFBWL

[Zion 🇸🇩 @afroanalytic]

Because it depicts a type of documented Black patriarchal violence in arranged marriages and they are not interested in capturing the complexities of even black mens’ own subjectivity under the racia-sexual contract of modernity

[renzo. @lit_literati]

The sad truth is that so many ppl love to try and shade someone on their age when aging as a black queer person is nothing short a miracle if you factor in antiblackness and the violence inflicted on us and if you know your history.

[The Free Black Women's Library @TFBWL]

I read 28 books in 2023 for The Free Black Women’s Library Reading Challenge which honestly feels like a low number but I am more so satisfied with the fact that I enjoyed all the books I read.
#thefreeblackwomenslibrary
#readingchallenge

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New additions to The Free Black Women’s Library 📚🥳

GORILLA, MY LOVE by Toni Cade Bambara

VOODOO DREAMS by Jewell Parker Rhodes

MAGICAL NEGRO/POEMS by Morgan Parker

THE LIVING BLOOD by Tananarive Due

#thefreeblackwomenslibrary
#librarylove