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18 Gospel and Soul Songs by Black Women to Add to Your Black History Month Playlist
I'm so excited to share this list of gospel and soul songs from 18 different incredible women! Not only is this a great way to end Black History Month, it's also a great way to kick off Women's History Month!
A couple of years back I published 17 Blues and Jazz Songs by Black Women to Add to Your Black History Month Playlist because I think music is a beautiful way to explore history and blues and jazz are genres firmly rooted in Black history. I’m once again sharing a list of some of the incredible Black women throughout history who have impacted the genres of gospel and soul, genres that cannot be…
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By the way, for people who did not stay informed about Palestine throughout last week:
Isreal has planned to attack Rafah and to completely close the border to Egypt on the first day of Ramadan. This week is the very last week where we can help disabled people to get out. We do not know when the border will be open again, but it could last month if not a year. And evacuating those people out is extremely expensive. If you can please send money to either of those 2 links:
https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/raindoved
https://venmo.com/u/Rain-Dubilewski
The money is going to Safebow to evacuate kids under 4yo, disabled, and pregnant people. Those are people who definitely will not survive if they are stuck in gaza. They are extremely urgent cases, people with cancer, who need insulin, people with broken mobility aids etc...
please help.
If you're giving at least 20€, you can send me proof of it and I'll count it as an art commission.
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Twenty-Nine Picture Books to Read for Black History Month
Black History Month may be the shortest month of the year, but it’s always a wonderful opportunity to learn more about Black history and to find great reading resources. Picture book readers are at a distinct advantage, because they can read a book a day without overdoing it. With that in mind, I’ve compiled one picture book per day (and it’s fortunately a leap year, so there’s an extra day) for…
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The Feminist Bibliothecary's Favourite Picture Books of 2023
It's finally ready, my favourite picture books of 2023!
I may be an adult, but I love picture books. The stories, the style, the illustrations, they all fill me with joy. It always brings me great joy to share my favourite recently released picture books at the end of the year, and this year is no exception. So without further ado, here are my favourite picture books released in 2023. Let me know in the comments if I missed your favourite!
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31 Short Stories With Perfect Spooky Vibes to Read for Halloween (And Where to Read Them for Free)
If you're looking for some good quick reads for spooky season, I've got you more than covered.
I love reading short stories. I literally did over a hundred unique entries to our short story club Lite Reads (currently on hiatus, hopefully back before long!), so perhaps this is stating the obvious. Any kind of short story can be a blast, but there’s something about the format that makes for brilliant fall reading. Mysteries, gothic literature, ghost stories, dark fantasy, and horror all…
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The Feminist Bibliothecary Recommends Fifteen Movies For the Halloween Season
I put together a list of some of my favourite things to watch for Spooky Seeason! (Barring anything tooooo obvious I hope.) Happy watching, folks!
I’m definitely a Halloween person, probably because of my love of all things horror, spooky, mysterious, etc. that has steadily built throughout my life. I love a good spooky movie, and I’ve watched my share, and I have a list of some recommendations to share! I’ve refrained from putting anything too obvious in here (no matter how much I love Scream [1996] or The Cabin in the Woods [2011]), so…
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Book Review: "The Salt Grows Heavy" by Cassandra Khaw
I finally read Cassandra Khaw's The Salt Grows Heavy and I deeply loved it. Perfect for fans of their short story These Deathless Bones.
I’ve been a fan of Cassandra Khaw for awhile now. As part of our Lite Reads short story club we read their story “These Deathless Bones” (intro post here and review post here), which I loved, and I reviewed their novella Nothing But Blackened Teeth in 2021, which I also loved. When I got the chance to read an advanced copy their new fairy tale horror novella The Salt Grows Heavy from Netgalley, I…
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10 Songs to Add to Your Pride Month Playlist: The 2023 Edition
Our annual Pride Month playlist adds are ready to check out!
Every year I recommend a list of songs by LGBTQ+ artists to add to a Pride Month playlist (links to all of which are available at the bottom of this article). I think music is a wonderful way to celebrate queer artistry and to protest against those who would rather we don’t exist. I think that as homophobia and transphobia levels continue to rise and we continue to be attacked for who we are that…
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I've been interested in reading Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and The Origins of American Gynecology by Deirdre Cooper Owens for awhile now, and it was moved up my tbr this past year after listening to the interview with the author at the end of the audioplay Behind the Sheet by Charly Evon Simpson. I finally decided to give it a go since I had the time for it in my audio schedule and I wanted to include some adult nonfiction for my BHM reading selections. Medical Bondage is an exploration of the lives of the enslaved women whose bodies were experimented upon in the name of medical advancement, who also served as their own nurses during these painful experiments. It makes interesting observations about what can be gleaned about the lives of these women from medical journals, and further observations about how these experiments also shaped how race and gender were scientifically viewed for many years. It is grim, but informative and necessary. Allyson Johnson offers up a solid narration, and I was particularly fond of how she gave voices and accents to the quotes. Overall I would definitely recommend the book to anyone looking for a better understanding of this history. #reading #audiobook #nonfiction #blackhistorymonthreadinglist #books #bookreview #booksofig #booksofinstagram #booksofinsta https://www.instagram.com/p/Co-lXvTvW30/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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The Feminist Bibliothecary's Favourite Picture Books of 2022
A bit late, but check out this list of my favourite picture books from 2022!
2022 saw countless wonderful picture books released, and it has brought me great joy to read through as many of them as I was able to manage. I’ve compiled this list of my favourite picture books published throughout this past year.
If I’m missing your favourites it may be that I haven’t had the chance to read them (as I mostly read picture books based on library availability for budget reasons)…
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I haven't had the spoons to post much lately, but I'm trying to post more, so hopefully you'll see a bunch of posts from me in the coming days. I've seen both the movie and the TV show Snowpiercer but hadn't had the chance to read the original comics. The library got them in, and I'm ready to go through them. I just finished Snowpiercer Vol 1: The Escape by Jacques Lob, art by Jean-Marc Rochette, translated from French to English by Virginie Selavy. The art style and black and white colour scheme work really well for this story. The story of a train that never stops and travels with the remnants of humanity organised into a strict class system is one that I was familiar with, but most of the story here is fairly independent from anything that happens in the movie or show, aside from a few moments. I feel like it works surprisingly well here, and I enjoyed it for the most part. I think the sexual violence was unnecessary for what was going on in this particular story, I wish there had been more women characters, and the ending was a touch underwhelming, but it makes me curious to see where subsequent volumes go. I'll be putting the next on hold with the library so I can continue the series. I would recommend it with content warnings for sexual violence. #snowpiercer #comics #graphicnovel #reading #books https://www.instagram.com/p/ClRy8KkPgNp/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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The Feminist Bibliothecary's Top 35 Music Videos of 2022 (So Far)
The Feminist Bibliothecary’s Top 35 Music Videos of 2022 (So Far)
2022 has been a great year for new music releases in a variety of genres, and I’m excited to share thirty-five of my favourite music videos that have come of that. While it won’t include videos released in late November or throughout December, I’ve pulled music videos released throughout the year that particularly struck a chord with me. I hope I’ve included your favourites (and if I missed it,…
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I finally got around to reading Ring Shout the other day and it was so good, I regret not getting to it faster. We had previously done some short fiction by P. Djeli Clark for Lite Reads that I had really loved, so I was looking forward to getting to this novella, and just hadn't? Glad I have now. From my goodreads review: There's a great mixture of histories, oral traditions, body horror, eldritch abominations, and absolute badasses taking out some of the worst villains of history. I ended up getting far more emotionally invested than I honestly anticipated, and I was dying to know the outcome. It has a lot of interesting and brilliant points to make while also serving up some excellent entertainment. Highly recommended! #halloweenreads #Halloween #spookyseason #horrornovel #blackauthors #books #reading #bookreview #booksofinstagram #bookstagram #booksofig #booksofinsta #novella #horrornovella https://www.instagram.com/p/CkZYNbPL2Hc/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Another comic for spooky season! Cold Bodies by Magdalene Visaggio, art by Andrea Mutti, was honestly disappointing. The art is gorgeous and the premise is awesome and I love slashers, so this should have come together for me, but it really didn't. The story is disjointed in a way that is just confusing and irritating, the art sometimes makes it hard to tell what's going on, and the ending is a mess. It feels like a waste of a good premise and art. I didn't hate it, but I really felt like it was such a mixed bag that had too much negative mixed in for me to really enjoy it. I wouldn't specifically recommend against it, I'm sure it has its audience, but I won't be recommending it as that audience was not me. #books #comics #Halloween #spookyseason #bookreview #comicreview #horrorcomics #graphicnovel #graphicnovels #reading #halloweenreads https://www.instagram.com/p/CkYy-fDrqXv/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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13 Graphic Novels for Horror-Shy Halloween Lovers
Looking for something to read while spooky season is still on but don't like anything too scary or simply not in the mood for anything but classic halloween vibes? I have a list.
Spooky Season is one of my favourite times of year! I love the excuse to engage in all my favourite spooky media and while I don’t ignore those things the rest of the year it’s really great to be so focused. While I do love horror, I think sometimes I just want wholesome Halloween vibes or things that feel spooky without getting into anything too horrifying. I’m also aware of many people who…
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I've been reading through spooky season stuff faster than I've been able to share it here, so I figured I would share a few of the comics I was reading on hoopla for the season all at once. * Hollow by Shannon Watters and Branden Boyer-White, art by Berenice Nelle I actually read The Legend of Sleepy Hollow possibly for the first time on Serial Reader before starting this one (I thought I had read it as a kid but once I read it I was no longer sure that was true). The story is a YA modern day sequel to Sleepy Hollow. It has lots of adventure, it's queer (always a selling feature for me), and it plays with the story in a way that is fun but stays fairly true to the source. The art is also really cute and very easy to follow. It's a great read for spooky season, definitely recommend it! * Black is the Color by Julia Gfrörer Gfrörer writes historical horror comics with finely sketched art, and this was her debut and my first experience with her work. It follows a sailor left to die at sea in the final days of his life, showing the uncomfortable horrors of the sea and the tragedy of his life being taken. The art is gorgeous. The tone is melancholic. It's worth the read, especially for those who enjoy their spooky season reading on the historical side. * Laid Waste by Julia Gfrörer I immediately followed up Black is the Color with Laid Waste, a later Gfrörer book about a small city in the medieval period being devastated by the plague. It is also quite melancholic, but surprisingly hopeful as it shows the bonds formed between those who are struggling. It's a great follow up. I don't have access to any of her other comics, but I'll be keeping an eye out for them. * #books #Halloween #spookyseason #comics #graphicnovel #reading #horrorcomics #halloweenreads #booksofig #booksofinstagram #booksofinsta #bookstagram #graphicnovels https://www.instagram.com/p/CkWXySgglti/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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My second audiobook of spooky season was The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, narrated by Bob Neufeld. I read Jekyll and Hyde as a kid, but I honestly hadn't read it since, and I had forgotten how much of it is presented as a mystery before we get to Jekyll's chapter, so it was fun to experience that again. Reading as an adult with the myth of Stevenson having written it during a six day cocaine binge was also interesting since you could really see the addiction parallels. Honestly, I also read it as being queer this time around, but a person puts a bit of themselves into what they read so perhaps that was inevitable. The narration was not my favourite, but I did feel like it did a decent job. Overall, glad I gave it a go as an adult, I feel like I got a lot more out of it. It also sets a great mood for the Halloween season. #reading #classiclit #books #audiobook #audiobooks #bookstagram #booksofig #booksofinstagram #booksofinsta #classichorror #jekyllandhyde https://www.instagram.com/p/CkTsFgxrRPR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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