Episode 11: Duality... "A Purple-Haired, Tattooed Black Librarian working in Entertainment”

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01/31/22 • 29 min

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This week, Your Favorite Librarian shares her world with readers.
Follow along for some thrilling updates about Your Librarian, insightful nuggets of wisdom about Librarianship, and great Black Literature suggestions. Your Favorite Librarian shares her world and what fuels her motivation, and evolution.
Among the new changes, some things remain the same... ways of recharging, dancing, and specific genres of interest. This week’s reading suggestion is “You Are Not Alone” by Grammy nominated artist Alphabet Rockers, and illustrated by Ashley Evans.
Remember friends, you are not alone... There is a book out there for you. Continue reading! For more information on this week’s episode, check out favoritelibrarian.com.

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Episode X: "Eye to Eye: Black Women, Hatred, and the Use of Anger"

Join Your Favorite Librarian and special quest, Ashley Meadows, for Episode 10: "Eye to Eye: Black Women, Hatred, and the Use of Anger." This episode is a nod to Audre Lorde and an exploration of the Uses of Anger.

This week's episode reading list include the following:
“Sister Outsider” by Audre Lorde
“Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women” by E. Patrick Johnson “Bone Black” by Bell Hooks“Dear Ijeawela, or a Feminist Menifesto in Fifteen Suggestions” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Throughout this episode, the pair discuss the burden of strength, cultivating well-being and care among Black girls, softness and the queer spectrum, and using anger as motivation. Discussants also explore systemic attempts to police the Black body, gender and race-based emotion stereotypes, and the "reserve of anger."
For more information about this week’s special guest, Ashley Meadows, browse their social media at IG: @yarrah_737. For more information on this week’s episode, check out favoritelibrarian.com.

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Ep 12: Measure of Authenticity... Black Literature by White Authors?

Happy Black History Month!
This week, Your Favorite Librarian reviews authorship and examines who truly contributes to the world of Black Literature. Join the librarian, as she discusses the topic fairly divided into four portions:

Who Contributes to the Black Experience?
Gatekeeping: Preserving and Protecting... or Protect over preserve?
Allyship and Holding Space...properly
Who provides creditability?

Along with this week's episode, check out the paired literature to support your interests. And remember, friends... you are not alone. There is book out there for you.
God and Race: A Guide for Moving Beyond Black Fists and White Knuckles by John Siebeling and Wayne Francis
Power Hungry: Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Movement by Suzanne Cope
The Question of Equality: Lesbian and Gay Politics in America since Stonewall

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