Ep. 101 Reading Black Women with Asha Grant
Our guest today is Asha Grant, the founder of the Los Angeles Branch of The Free Black Women's Library. We talk about the work Asha does in the LA community, how much of her own reading consists of books by Black women, and why she is focused on decolonizing her bookshelf. Asha also lets us know how we can get involved with The Free Black Women's Library.
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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon
The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
Tar Baby by Toni Morrison
Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
The Murmur of Bees by Sofía Segovia
The Girl with Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee
The Air You Breathe by Frances de Pontes Peebles
Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism by Angela Y. Davis
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
The Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
Assata by Assata Shakur
"The Short Stacks 15: Akiba Solomon & Kenrya Rankin//How We Fight White Supremacy"(The Stacks)
Skylight Books (Los Angeles, CA)
Sliding Doors (Peter Howitt, 1998)
Harry Potter (Chris Columbus, 2001)
Cheer (Netflix)
"The controversy over Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and trans women, explained" (Emily Crockett, Vox.com)
Grown-ish (Free Form)
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