Favorite Librarian, the Podcast

This week, Your Favorite Librarian defines and examines exactly what Community is and how readers can strengthen their understand on how to contribute to such. Broken up into three major elements: Foundation, Core, and Practice-- join Your Favorite Librarian for a jam-packed episode.
This episode is meant to inform readers on how individuality contributes to the foundation of community and personal stability. As readers discovery themselves with each or new titles, reading provides any reader refined insight on how to locate or participate in their respective circles.
From shared interests and culture, and just how participation looks in all variation-- readers will leave feeling empowered to seek the intimacy and curated energy of any community.
Readers' personal commitment to visibility and transparency also articulates the multiple and beautiful intersections that complete communities around the world. Before you finish this week's episode, check the paired reading selections.
"A Garden for Black Boys: Between the Stages of Soil and Stardust" by W.J. Lofton
"#InspiredbyaBlackWoman: Loved by a Black Femme" by Ali D Collins
"Please: Radical Self-Care for Wild Women of Color" by Black Girl Bliss
"#VeryBrave, #VeryBrave" by Nicole Byer
Aquaman Vol. 8 #57 (2020) by Kelly Sue DeConnick
Get ready for the mid-season special with Episode 8, to be released January 6, 2022.
You are not alone-- continue reading. There is a book out there for you.

This week, Your Favorite Librarian explores Pro-Blackness and Cancel Culture. This episode examines how Cancel Culture supports some traditional definitions and shapes expressions of Pro-Blackness. Throughout the episode, Your Favorite Librarian also illustrates the cornerstone of Cancel Culture and how gatekeeping, in an act to protect and preserve Black Culture and Excellence may not be the best approach for all contributors of the Black Experience.
This week's reading selections in includes the following:
"Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist" by Franchesca Ramsey
"Hidden Legacies: African Presence in European Antiques" by Tanzy Ward
"A Black Theology of Liberation: 20th Anniversary Edition" by James H. Cone
"Blaxhaustion, Karens and Other Threats to Black Lives and Well-Being" by Theresa M. Robinson
Episode IX also specifically explores gender and race-based emotions, White Complicity and Performance Wokeness, History or Relevance and to whom is the true villain.
From Blaxhaustion, the burden of racial and social injustices and navigating implicit bias in the Black community.. this episode if packed with insight.

This week, Your Favorite Librarian shares her personal stories navigating and battling anxiety. Before or after checking out Episode 8, check out this uplifting reading list, to guide you along.
"Persepolis: The Story of A Childhood" by Marjane Satrapi
"You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience" by Tarana Burke and Brene and Brown
"You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays" by Zora Neale Hurston
"100 Days Inside" by Madison Martin and Fionna M. Wright
Your Favorite Librarian defines what Generalized Anxiety Disorder is based off the DSM-5's guidance, shares tools to help readers navigate challenging and difficult emotions, and situations, and also provides real-life examples and tools of how to be your best self... with anixety.
From dancing to channel negative and anxious energy, engaging in laughter to escape from bouts of lowness, hiking to engage in a new environment, or mediating to detach, or reconnect... Reading can provide readers an opportunity to figure out what mental health tool or resource is best.
This Week's Honorable Mentions include:
"I Don't Want to Die Poor" by M. Arceneaux
"It's About Drama Time" by Arlan Hamilton
"Fear the Black Body" by Sabrina S.
You are not alone-- there is something for you. Continue reading!
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Join Your Favorite Librarian to explore colorful options of applying what you know after reading great pieces of literature.
From journaling your progress, refining your communication and great collaboration, or ways to reflect-- applying what you know has its benefits. As you evolve, reading will continuously take you to places you may not have imagined. As you open your heart, your mind will open as well.
Continue reading, friends. There is a book out there for you.

Join Your Favorite Librarian this episode to explore how reading is an act of self-care, an example of escapism, self-improvement and a great way to explore personal interests and passions.
Many of us have heard the phrase "strong reader" or other disparaging remarks that effect our confidence to continue reading later in life. Say less, Your Favorite Librarian has a few pointers and colorful insight.
Reading can literally take you anywhere--- redirect your thinking, master specific comprehension and reading skills, or discovery the world around you with a great book. From discovering which genre best reflects your interests and strengths to finding support throughout the page you read... you are not alone. Check out this week's reading suggestions:
"Sula" by Toni Morrison
"Black Girl, Call Home" by Jasmine Mans
"Honeypot" by E. Patrick Johnson
"Black Nerd Problem" by William Evans and Omar Holmon
"It's About Damn Time" by Arlan Hamilton
Continue reading, friend! You are not alone-- there is something for you.
(This episode was influenced and inspired by a small batch of Uncle Nearest 1884 whiskey... the smoothest whiskey in Tennessee. For more information on the label, be sure to browse their official website. Drink responsibly.)