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The Free Black Women's Library events calendar for February is so up. Wonderful things are happening this month. 🖤📚🖤📚🖤

2/10 Imagining Our Stories/ Speculative Fiction workshop for Black women & Black non-binary writers 3pm - 5pm

2/11 Ready, Set, Color!! Come color with us!! Coloring book sessions with Richly Learning. 3pm - 5pm

2/16 COME PLAY WITH ME/ Game Night for Black Singles. 8pm - 11pm

2/17 BLACK WOMEN TAUGHT US featuring Jenn M Jackson & Brittney Cooper 3pm - 5pm

2/18 ALL THE BLACK WOMEN featuring EbonyJanice & Roya Marsh 3pm - 5pm

2/24 CUT & CONJURE/ A Black History Month Collage Party 3pm - 5pm

2/25 TFBWL READING CLUB/ ZAMI - A New Spelling Of My Name by Audre Lorde 6.30pm - 8pm (Zoom)

PDF available.

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I’ve decided to do upload a video on every book I read for The Free Black Women’s Library Reading Challenge this year.

Here is my video for book 3 (my fave so far 🖤)

TFBWL Reading Challenge/Book 3 - A KICK IN THE BELLY by Stella Dadzie

TFBWL Reading Challenge/Book 3 - A KICK IN THE BELLY by Stella Dadzie

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I’ve decided to do upload a video on every book I read for The Free Black Women’s Library Reading Challenge this year.

Here is my video for book 2 - HONEY GIRL by Morgan Rogers

TFBWL Reading Challenge/Book 2 - HONEY GIRL by Morgan Rogers

TFBWL Reading Challenge/Book 2 - Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers

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I’ve decided to do upload a video on every book I read for The Free Black Women’s Library Reading Challenge this year.

Here is my video for book 1 of 2024 it’s called NIGHTCRAWLING by Leila Mottley

TFBWL Reading Challenge/Book 1- Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley

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12 books read for The Free Black Women’s Library Reading Challenge in 2023 Part 2

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

Part 1

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Please feel free to use this checklist to keep track of your reads and donate to givebutter.com/TFBWL to show gratitude and appreciation for this work. Thank you!!

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If you appreciate and enjoy all of the work I pour into The Free Black Women's Library, please donate to the crowdfunding campaign at givebutter.com/TFBWL

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this is the third and final chapter of my - This Year at TFBWL - but I could easily share at least 2 or 3 more, pls check the posts before this one to see parts one and two.

We had an infinite amount of soul lifting moments of creativity, inspiration, purpose and connection.

Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the cause

Hopefully folks these 2023 reflections motivate folks to donate to so that we can keep these good vibes going in 2024.

Donate at givebutter.com/TFBWL

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Celebrating the sweet and tender moments of 2023, hoping to continue to be a space of refuge, creativity, safety and connection in 2024.

Donate to our crowdfunding campaign by donating to

givebutter.com/TFBWL

Thank you so much to everyone who has contributed and shared the link. The Free Black Women’s Library deeply appreciates you 🫶🏿📚🫶🏿📚🫶🏿

Also that moment when you look back on your year and think you have not accomplished much because didn’t slay your complete to do list, but then your photos and social media post remind you that wonderful and amazing things happened each and every day.

Three cheers for the digital archive.

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This is part two of a three part post, pls check the one before it for part 1 🥰📚

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One of my favorite films of 2023 is a sweet and hilarious romantic comedy called RYE LANE, the directorial debut of Raine Allen Miller, it takes place in South London and stars Vivian Oparah and David Johnsson

I LOVED the way color and camera were used in this film, and it always pleases me to highlight good and trauma film featuring Blk folks.

TFBWL Ramble Reaction/Rye Lane - Love, Color & Camera!! ♥️(Best of 2023)

https://youtu.be/Y4nEiIhn-eM

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The Free Black Women’s Library, which started as a mobile library book swapping social art project in 2015 is now over eight years old.

2023 marks two years of us having our own brick and mortar space and having a home base has helped the project grow and develop into all that I imagined it could be and more.

This year birthed some lovely initiatives, opportunities and moments. We have become a community resource, creative hub, social site and care space for many.

If we raise enough money we can keep these good vibes going in 2024.

Help us make it happen by donating to our crowdfunding campaign at

givebutter.com/TFBWL

Thank you ♥️🥳

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My review of the season finale for The Gilded Age is up on my YT channel.

TFBWL Rambly Reaction on The Gilded Age S.2 Ep. 8 - THE FINALE!!!

https://youtu.be/_GaRnuHc_W8

Thank you so much to those who have been liking and commenting on my videos, it was really encouraging and fun to see you engaging with this content.

Outside of it feeling rushed in parts and me wanting more for Peggy it was an excellent season over all.

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Our next edition of Come Play With Me - Our monthly game night for Black Singles is happening this on Friday, November 24th at 8pm.

This is a social event for grown Black folks looking for love, friendship and everything in between. Tickets available at bit.ly/BlackGameNight3 - only $5 each!!

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The Free Black Women's Library is thrilled to host interdisciplinary artist and educator Desiree Mwalimu-Banks, with a special screening and discussion of her film Transmissions From The Sacred Feminine: A Labyrinth Journey Into The Center of The Hive

This experimental film stitches together global narratives of the sacred feminine to the story of her becoming an artist, priestess, and daughter of the African Diaspora. It s also an articulation of the water mandala, a foundational blueprint that circumscribes water’s ability to conceive, nourish, purify, and re-member its mark.

This 34-minute film is presented in a series of 13 sections, based on the phases of the moon according to the life-cycle of a honeybee, and described through the storytelling vehicle of the water mandala. While the bee’s journey in the hive throughout the phases of the moon represents a measured archetypal chronology, the film is presented both in and out of time, using a non-linear sequencing framework.

Throughout this weaving, viewers are invited into and out of these spiraling dimensions of the labyrinth.

We will engage in a special meditation activation prior to watching the film, with a community discussion to follow across both live and virtual platforms.

Light refreshments will be provided.

All are welcome to attend.

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Join us each and every weekend at the Free Black Women’s Library this month, as we spend time exploring the different ways that we can protect, connect and reflect on nature.

Click on our Eventbrite page to register for

https://www.eventbrite.com/o/the-free-black-womens-library-30831090411

Saturday 9.16 at 3pm - Nature as Metaphor/A Writing Workshop

Exploring nature as a metaphor and theme in Black women’s literature, free writing sessions, open sharing and feedback.

Sunday 9.17 at 2pm - Dig In/A Farmers Market featuring Brooklyn Packers & Backyard Garden Work Day. Come taste delicious treats made by Black Farmers as we harvest, weed and prep our backyard garden for the fall season.

Saturday 9.23 at 3pm Black Women in Climate/ A Panel Discussion with Black Girl Environmentalists

Sunday 9.24 at 3pm You, Me & The Honey Bee/Apiary Life with Bonnie Banks 🐝

Sunday 9.30 at 2pm Plant Swap!! Bring a plant to donate or trade

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Sunday 9.30 at 3pm Nature as Medicine/A workshop on using & making herbal teas with herbalist Sojourner Williams 🫖🌱

We are definitely cultivating the most perfect vibes for September🌳👍🏿🖤

We are also having another game night for Black singles on Friday 9.29 with a live DJ, drinks & special treats 💃🏾🌹

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