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.

Books

• The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
• Tar Baby by Toni Morrison
• How We Fight White Supremacy by
• Audre Lorde
• 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

Everything Else

• The Free Black Women’s Library — Los Angeles
• The Free Black Women’s Library
• Kimberlé Crenshaw
• OlaRonke Akinmowo
• “The Short Stacks 15: Akiba Solomon & Kenrya Rankin//How We Fight White Supremacy”(The Stacks)
• Women’s Center for Creative Work
• The Free Black Women’s Library–Atlanta
• Skylight Books (Los Angeles, CA)
• West Palm Beach Meet Up Book Club
• Sliding Doors (Peter Howitt, 1998)
• Bessie Smith
• Ma Rainey
• Well Read Black Girl (Instagram)
• Harry Potter (Chris Columbus, 2001)
• Star Wars Film Franchise
• Cheer (Netflix)
• “The controversy over Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and trans women, explained” (Emily Crockett, Vox.com)
• Grown-ish (Free Form)
• Barbara Walters

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