Favorite Librarian, the Podcast: Recent Episodes
Forrest
Name's Forrest. I'm a licensed Atlanta-based librarian, #blerd, and published poet. My love for reading fuels my passion to circulate Black and Queer History, and Literature. Celebrate reading with me! Reading can be a part of your healing, friend-- you are not alone. There is a book out there for you.
From traveling to southeast Georgia to visit family, working in her community to consistently posting Black and LGBTQ People of Color literature, and resources-- in this episode, Forrest shares her personal experiences and insight about Gender Expression, identity and sexuality.
The conversation continues with exploring pivotal elements of Heteronormal spaces, femme privilege and sexuality possibility-- along with Your Inner Teenage and the Importance of Friendships.
"Power: The Rise of Black Women in America" by Charity C. Elder, "Reclaiming Two Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal and Soverneighty in Native America" Gregory D. Smithers and "Set Boundaries, Find Peace" by Nedra Glover Tawwab are just a few suggested titles come this episode.
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This podcast episode is to create, build, and share practice healing and liberation in Black Queer, Queer and Trans Communities-- through my insight, findings and personal stories.
Breaking down this episode into 4 sections, jump into this conversation:
**Defining the Types of Trauma and Their Symptoms
The Restraint of Emotional Labor
Archived harm within the body
Healing the Mind, Body and Soul
Before holiday season, check out this resources to support your journey. Continue reading!
THE NATIONAL QUEER AND TRANS THERAPISTS OF COLOR NETWORK**(NQTTCN) https://www.nqttcn.com/
LGBTQ Holiday Survival 2022 Guide |LGBTQ Holiday Survival Guide https://www.mainlinehealth.org/blog/lgbtq-holiday-survival-guide
YOGA WITH JESSAMYN STANLEY http://jessamynstanley.com/
THE ROOTED COLLECTIVE http://bemorerooted.org/
ALLY.WIKI http://ally.wiki/
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Join Forrest, Your Favorite Librarian for an impromptu and informal conversation. Consisting of b-roll, new audio clips and personal recordings-- jump into the dialogue with Forrest.
From exploring Grief and shame, the usage of both and how they effect expressions of sexuality and identity to rediscovering self in new environments. Forrest doesn't stop there, the conversation continues with paired personal stories and memories.
From defining and understanding spiritual trauma and abuse, respectability politics and honoring other's and their needs over self, this episode is more than a BONUS. With Forrest, explore what healing and self-identification looks like in the American South and Queer spaces, and also as a Queer person of color.
Forrest also discusses self-repression and the effects of voluntarily erasing self in an effort to be tolerated and ultimately accepted. From how not to use trauma and shame to how to copy with trauma and shame--- examine Forrest's suggested tools and tips, and recommend resources.
Episode's Suggested Books
1. "This (Boi)want Body: Narratives of a Queer Black Boi & the Waters that Carry Them" by Bobbi Kindred
2. "In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980's" by Margaret Galvan
3. "Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti-Violence Movement" by Jennifer Patterson
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This "phantom season" consists of b-roll and other, new audio recordings of Forrest, Favorite Librarian. Without a script or outline, see what is on Forrest's mind, heart and current reading list.
Check out "Sexuality and Black Church: A Womanist Perspective" by Kelly Brown Douglas and while you're at it also check out "Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where Black Meets Queer" by Kathryn Bond Stockton and "Black Skinhead: Reflections on Blackness and Our Political Future" by Brandi Collins-Dexter.
Walk through this informal conversation with Forrest, a whole hour with Your Favorite Librarian.
Until Season 3's release in June 2024, continue reading and check out all episodes of Favorite Librarian, the Podcast everywhere-- on all streaming platforms. Stay connected on Instagram at @FavoriteLibrarian or www.favoritelibrarian.com.
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Wrapping up Season II of Favorite Librarian the Podcast, join Forrest for this year's last podcast episode. Paired with Toni Morrison's National Best Seller " Self Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches and Meditations," jump into this week's episode. Broken into 4 sections:
I. Atlanta Pride
II. Self Regard and Discipline
III. Holiday Blues and Anxiety
IV. Community Building, Consistency, Reading
October celebrates so many communities for its monthly celebration like Intersex Awareness month. part of Hispanic Heritage Month, Pilipino Heritage Month, and most importantly Gullah Geechee Heritage Month. As a low country native, Gullah Geechee history is gem Your Favorite Librarian adores circulating.
Stay in the loop of great Black and LGBTQIA+ Literature, and resources, by following Forrest-- Your Favorite Librarian on IG at @favoritelibrarian or www.favoritelibrarian.com.
Be sure to share, like and leave a comment about how you enjoy, or provide any suggestions, for this great podcast.
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This week, after meeting Vice President Kamala Harris, Congresswoman Nikema Williams, and State Representative Park Cannon-- Your Favorite Librarian has been on cloud nine.
Paired with"DapperQ Style: Ungendering Fashion" by Anita Dolce Vita, jump into this conversation with Forrest. Divided into four portions, check out this episode.
1. Friends, Family, and Foes
2. Routine
3. Introverts vs. Extroverts
4. Apply, Obtain, Use and Repeat
With only one episode left of season II, be sure to leave a review or what you like the most about this season.
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Librarians are gatekeepers... not groomers.
As local libraries have become a major political and cultural battleground— librarians around the country are put in the crosshairs. Join this discussion with Forrest, Your Favorite Librarian, exploring this time of uncertainty.
From librarians and media specialists being fired, Proud Boys protesting Drag Queen story times, books being taken out of public and academic libraries to rightwing extremist and conservative groups working together to strength their argument of Queer and People of Color literature in school and libraries.
Broken down into 4 portions and paired with"I Have Always Been Me" by Precious Brady-Harris, jump into this controversial topic with Forrest.
1. Public and Academic Libraries
2. Supporting Queer Librarians and Librarians
3. Access to Books
4. What Can I do: Combating Conservative Censorship Craze and Book Bans
Check out the memoir from Precious Brady-Davis-- one of Your Favorite Librarian's favorite memoirs of this year. From her journey in Omaha, her work in the community and her beautiful love story with Myles.
Organizations and great groups to support that collectively work to combat efforts to limit Queer and People of Color books, and resources. Stay tuned to tips on how to join the collective fight against public and any effort to limit Queer literature, or support Queer authors.
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Your Favorite Librarian visited Philadelphia, had a serious car accident, and also a break up. So, this week's episode follows her journey of healing and peace. Paired with this episode's paired title-- "Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts" by Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martinez, readers are in for a rollercoaster of a ride.
The graphic novel is brilliant by a Black Queer author exploring the the slave revolts, and liberations, in the New York area and Eastern seaboard. Forrest, Your Favorite Librarian purchased the title at the Historic Giovanni's Room in Philly.
During this episode, explore about her travels to Philadelphia, healing and navigating life after a break up, and how reading is essential to any scholar navigating life. Readers can follow along as this week's episode is divided into 4 segments.
I. Car Accident and New Diagnosis
II. Philadelphia
III. Break Ups
IV. Books Actually HelpReading is a tool and is also a window to find community. Whether you find the title you're looking for or it finds you-- continue reading!
You are not alone with a book Continue reading!
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This week, explore the recent efforts of exclusion and transphobia with Forrest, Favorite Librarian. Yet, gain an understanding how radical inclusion is a seven step process.
Paired with "Radical Inclusion: Seven Steps to Help You Create a More Just Workplace, Home and World" by David Moinina Sengeh, gain new tools and insight on how to better support Black and Black Queer folks with their journey of personhood.
From Transphobia, Exploring the "ownership" of womanhood and the importance of sisterhood between Cisgender Black Women and Black Queer folks. Explore at your own pace:
I. "Cis" Where You At?
II. Black Queers and Lesbians in Sports
III. Interracial Queer Love
IV. Too Pro Black
Only four episodes left of season II and there is still so much to cover. Continue to read, grow and share what you know. Continue reading!
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Join Forrest, Your Favorite Librarian this week for Episode 15: "Act Bad:" Living Without Hesitation. Divided into 4 sections, explore the possibilities of healing. Paired with"Crip Kinship: Disability Justice and Art Activism for Sin Invalid" **by Shayda Kafai
I. Holding Space and Active Listening
II. Theory and New Information
III. Preparing for the Life You Want
IV. Fear and the Unknown as Motivation**With only five episodes left of Season II of Favorite Librarian, the Podcast--- stay connected by checking out favoritelibrarian.com or on any platform.
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Join Favorite Librarian for Episode 14: The Unknown. As the low country native unpacks, defines, and provides personal experiences "the unknown," and what that looks like. With 6 more episodes on the way until the end of season two, continue listening!
From going out of your comfort zone and experiencing new challenges to verbalizing hurt, and impact, to proper gain the support desired. Forrest shares how specific family relations, friendships, and choices reflex parts of "the unknown" many of us shy away from or are hesitate to discuss aloud.
Let's explore this together.
For this week, Forrest is #currentlyreading "Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working: by Blair LM Kelley.Continue reading, friends!
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After celebrating Juneteenth, Prideteenth, and Father's Day-- join Your Favorite Librarian to explore the effects of burning out and how to prevent burning out. June is also Black Music History Month, so there's lots to celebrate and circulate.
Divided into the usually four portions, jump knee deep into this week's episode.
1. Triggered and Open Wounds
2. Recharge and Process Accordingly
3. "I need Support and Help"
4. Safe Spaces
Paired with one of Your Favorite Librarian's authors-- "Love Is A Dog From Hell" by Charles Bukowski.
Continue reading-- there is a book out there for you
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After a two week hiatus, join Your Favorite Librarian for an Episode 12! In celebration of LGBTQ+ Month, check out the paired title for this week.
"Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture" by Sherronda J. Brown
Divided into 4 sections, follow along with the conversation at your leisure.
I. Pride: Homophobia in the Black Community and Queer Youth
II. Atlanta Pride and FRATL: The importance of Organizing
III. Who is Your Favorite Librarian and FAQs
IV. Educate and Circulate
With only a few more episodes remaining for season II. Definitely stay in the loop by following Favorite Librarian everywhere!
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Join Forrest, Favorite Librarian for a reconnection and re-introduction with week. Taking a break from reading this week, share how to apply what you learn and gain from reading and specific literature you love.
Divided into 4 sections, jump knee deep into this week's episode.
I. Intros and "Meeting Me Where I Am"
II. Life Changes and Evolving
III. New Language and Look
IV. Week in the Life... with Favorite Librarian
Check out the weekend dump of photos for a glimpse into Forrest's life working with her community, uplifting her tribe and prepping for Pride Month in June.
Continue reading and seeking great literature in the world. You are not alone--- there is book out there for you.
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This week, join Your Favorite Librarian for this week's episode exploring specific issues and stigmas of Mental Health for People of Color, especially with Black and African communities.
Divided into 4 sections, jump knee deep into the conversation at your own pace.
I. Diagnosis, Disabilities, and Diets
II. Self-soothe, self-medicate, and self-isolate
III. Where is your support?
IV. Third Home: The Need to Connect
This week's paired title comes from Your Favorite Librarian's favorite author--"For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf" by Ntozake Shange.
From the difference in professional and holistic help, self-diagnosis vs professional opinions and information, the trauma of dissociation and detachment, along with how to be your own cheerleader and not your best critic.
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Season II is halfway done and Your Favorite Librarian wanted to spice things up. Check out this week's episode by exploring sexual health, joy, pleasures and your physical appetite.
Using personal stories, experiences and similar narratives, explore the importance of your romantic and sexual joys, the bounds of consent, and sensual expression. Whether you romantic joys come from solo play, monogamous, or multi-partnered.
I. Consent, Restraints, Partners
II. Fetishes, Tolerances, Kinks (13:00)
III. Black Erotic Literature and Authors (34:00)
IV. Community= Support (45:37)
Before you dive deep into each area of the conversation, the conversation is intended for mature audiences and adults. Adult content, language and activities are listed and mentioned throughout the discussion and audiences are advised.
This week's episode does not have a paired title or stack of books as Your Favorite Librarian mentions a list of pivotal Black and brown Erotic authors and innovators of Black Romance fiction.
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It's Asian American Pacific Island Heritage Month!
This week's episode celebrates the yearly occasion with "Brown Boy: A Memoir" by Omer Aziz and some personal experiences about the importance of empathy over apathy, holding space for difference of opinions and personalities, and how vital active listening is.
Divided into 4 sections, check out the episode at your own pace.
I. Self-Awareness and Apathy
II. AAPI Heritage Month
III. Building A Standard and Process
IV. Care and Consideration Looks Like This
Enjoy tips and tools about prioritizing goal-based friends, and associates, for resolution and conclusion-based thinking and bonds. There is a community, a like a good book-- out there for you.
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On this week's episode join Your Favorite Librarian for an explanation of how your ego can prevent you from reaching your full potential, and exploring all the complexities of your identity. Paired with this week's reading selection, check out:
"Jaded Choyce" by Shaynuh Sloane
Season II of Favorite Librarian, the Podcast is almost at the hall-way benchmark. This episode is broken up into four parts, check it our at your leisure.
1. Processes and Principality
2. Supporting Characters
3. Charity
4. Best Friends
Whether you listen after reading a great book, on the drive to work, or burning calories on your downtime-- thank you for staying tuned and listening.
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This week, Your Favorite Librarian discusses, defines and provides tools to combat toxic and fragile femininity. Check out this week's reading selections:
"Feminist Weed Farmer: Growing Mindful Medicine In Your Back Yard" Madrone Stewart
"Side Notes from the Archivist" by Anastacia-Renee
"Dear Black Girls: Letters from Your Sisters on Stepping into Your Power" by Tamara Winfrey Harris
Listen to this conversation, divided into four portions anywhere or at anytime. Check out the convo in depth, see here:
1. Attack on Womanhood/Femininity
- Definition and examples
-Social Media (Soft Life, How to be more Femme, Sub Life)
-Male Gaze and Audience
-Archetypes for Black Women and Femme presenting folks
2. Seeing Myself in You vs. I See Myself As Young
-Youth and Mentorship
-Comparison and Giving Help
-Double-minded= instability
-Competition
Jeju... How a Bathhouse Healed My Inner Child
-Bathhouse in the Gwinnett County area
-Women at peace and relaxing
-Publicly loving on and enjoying my body
Sisterhood, Community, and Resource
-Book resources to provide more insight on how to connect
-Physically relax... be at rest. Do nothing or be pampered
-Find or make connection
Stay tuned and continue reading, friends! There's a book and community out there for you.
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The week is not over and Episode V is of Favorite Librarian the Podcast, Season II is here. Join Forrest this week to discuss family, estrangement, and how to craft a personal infrastructure. Firstly, check out this week's book suggestion
"A Church For All" by Gayle E. Pittman
Divided into four sections, jump knee deep into this episode:
i. Y'all Kin: Estranged Family and Keeping Distance-Defining estrangement, distant family and friends and distance
-Associates vs Friends ii. Birds of A Feather: Choosing Your Loved Ones-Holidays, Mental Health and Check Ins
-Routines [AM & PM routine, Socializing, and Recharging]
iii. Visitation: Visiting You In My Past-Commitment to Past Self
-Meeting You Where You Are
-Openness: Space to Meet Others iv. Boundaries, Recharge, Intentionality
-Seeking help, self-help books, places that reflect personal interest
-Verbalize and illustrate boundaries for peace
-Place and prepare
-Support can be reciprocated
Stay tuned for Forrest's cardinal pillars of a personal infrastructure and how to navigate spaces of hurt, healing and growth. Continue reading, friends!
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This week, join Your Favorite Librarian for an exploration of "taking a break." To support your reading, check out this week's reading suggestions:
"Once Ghosted, Twice Shy" by Alyssa Cole
"I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness" by Austin Channing Brown
" Sassafrass, Cypress, Indigo" by Ntozage Shange
Divided into three sections, explore this episode at your own pace. This week's episode is meant to reiterate the importance of "bouncing back" and how we "view the ball"
Section I: Boundaries, Breaks, and breakthroughs
Section II: Check In and Enjoy Your Inner Child
Section III: Take A Break... Doesn't Mean Give Up or Stop
As you continue your reading, remember your commitment to self, love and healing. Progress is not linear but each step is essential to move forward.
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Welcome back, Welcome back, Welcome back!
Join Your Favorite Librarian for Episode I of Season II. After a long hiatus, follow Your Favorite for a discussion on Black mother-child relationships, the continuation of raising and caring for your inner child, addressing unhealed trauma along a journey of self discovery, and trusting the adult version of yourself.
Check out this week's reading suggestions below:
- "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen: The Emotional Lives of Black Women" by Inner Burnett-Zeigler
- "First Bloom: Stories of Blossoming Black Lesbian Love" S.E. Howard
But don't stop there, continue your reading with this episode's talking points:
- Defining and ignoring the inner child
- Learning to Trust Our Adult Self
- Not projecting and projecting
- Defeating the Oppressor: "Not beating them by becoming them"
You are never alone with a book. Whether you find it today or next year-- when you open a book, you open the door to a community. Continue reading!
Specific areas of warning and possible triggers: Mention of childhood traumas and some religious traumas
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Happy Birthday, Favorite Librarian!
Join Your Favorite Librarian for Episode II-- A Birthday Celebration!
It's the last day of Pisces season, the last day of the Zodiac calendar, and the Spring Equinox-- the first day of Spring. Celebrate Your Favorite Librarian's new chapter of life with episode II.
Check out this week's reading suggestions below:
- "Shades of Black: A Celebration of Our Children" by Sandra L Pinkney and Myles C. Pinkney
- "Racial Justice at Work: Practical Solutions for Systemic Change"by Mary-Frances Winters and the Winters Group Team
- "Emotional Labor: The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power" by Rose Hackman
- "Feelin': Creative Practice, Pleasure, and Black Feminist Thought" by Bettina Judd
But don't stop there, continue your reading with this episode's talking points:
- Finding balance and maintaining boundaries
- Trusting myself to make the best decisions for myself
- Learning the best way to be present and open to love
- Celebrating the last of Pisces season and Black Queer excellence
You are never alone with a book. Whether you find it today or next year-- when you open a book, you open the door to a community. Continue reading!
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Join your Favorite Librarian for Episode 18: The Magic of Libraries. Episode 18 marks the end of season one… But stay tuned for Season II that will begin June 2022. In this episode, celebrate National Library Week by exploring the importance of libraries, librarians and all library professionals.
Each episode of Favorite Librarian, the Podcast is a safe space to share insight, experiences and great Black and Queer Literature. Each episode, including episode 18, should guide readers along their discovery, and reading.
There is literally something out there for you… Whether a novella, graphic novel, novel, children's book or academic journal… there is a book out there for you.
Reading is one of the worlds greatest resources. Literature is a fulcrum, providing readers a wealth, and balance, of information. With great literature, any reader can so you can make informed decisions, that best serves and supports them.
Look out for Season II of Favorite Librarian, the Podcast in June 2022. Be sure to share, like and subscribe for more information on great literature.
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With this episode, Your Favorite Librarian shares how some non-people of color are able to capitalize off of Black Literature as authors, social media influencers, and as book bloggers. Independently published authors and some popular Black authors do not receive the same promotional marketing or "push" publicly as many best-selling and well known White authors.
Specifically explore issues like:
- How major publishing houses shape audience reception of Black Literature
- How core audiences of specific subject of the Black Experience are addressed by social influencers
- How trends are used to catapult many non-people of color authors' discussion of the Black Experience, Culture, Queerness, and Identities.
Examine why Your Favorite Librarian feels Black Literature is a reflection of the Black Experience; thus, its contributors should reflect the community it articulates. Other contributors of Black Literature that aren't of color simply provide interruptions of the Black Experience-- not contributions.
Thus why many book bloggers and social influencers are tasked with the essential role--- authentic promotion, that many major publishing houses should innately satisfy.Black Literature isn't a trend, it's a circulation of history.
With one more episode left of Season 1 of Favorite Librarian, the Podcast... stay tuned and continue reading!
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This week's episode is inspired by the Instagram account @TheBlackParkRangerExperience. Your Favorite Librarian is country girl at heart and grew up around horses, and explored National Parks and nature centers with her parents.
Along Your Favorite Librarian's pursuit of higher education, National Parks gave Your Favorite a place of peace and hold a special place in her heart. Join Your Favorite Librarian as she shares her favorite National Parks, the best National Parks in the Metro-Atlanta area and how representation in the National Park System matters.
The first time Your Favorite Librarian met a Park Ranger of color... it changed her life. From the guide tour, the insight, and the world of knowledge shared--- left an impression. Your Favorite Librarian's Favorite National Parks are:
- The Okefenokee Swamp is a shallow, 438,000-acre, peat-filled wetland straddling the Georgia–Florida line in the United States.
- Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site, at Moton Field in Tuskegee, Alabama, commemorates the contributions of African-American airmen in World War II.
- Arabia Mountain, a part of Arabia Mountain National Heritage Area, is the northern of two peaks in the Davidson-Arabia Mountain Nature Preserve, in DeKalb County, Georgia
- Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park in Macon, Georgia, United States preserves traces of over ten millennia of culture from the Native Americans in the Southeastern Woodlands.
Check out Your Favorite Librarian's stamped Passport to National Parks. Purchase your own online or pick up one at your nearest National Park.
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In celebration of Women's History Month, join Your Favorite Librarian as she reviews the 2014 memoir written by Lorraine Sade Bakersville, entitled "One Trans Woman's Spiritual Journey."
While pursuing her degree in librarianship, Your Favorite Librarian met the author. The experience and interaction left a beautiful impression on Your Favorite Librarian.
Baskerville is not only an author but a kick-ass social worker and activist best known for founding transgender advocacy group transGENESIS.
In 2000, Baskerville was inducted into the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame. In 2002, Baskerville was appointed to the Executive Committee of the National Coalition for LGBT Health. This living legend is sure to inspire any reader.
"Life is about making choices... I ask you... are you living... or are you just existing?"
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This week, enjoy Episode Fourteen with Your Favorite Librarian as she continues the conversation about "Measure of Authenticity. This episode is broken into two portions for readers to properly examine and are, also, paired with great titles to support any reader's discovery.
Scars are Beautiful: Unresolved Trauma and Reclaiming Black Beauty
- Healing Legacies of Trauma and Abuse in the Queer Community
- Masculine of Centre, Seeking Her Refined Femme
- Just Not Beautiful Enough... balance, attention, care, effort and specialness
Provided Examples of Great Black Illustrators: Ashley Evans, Floyd Cooepr, Vanessa Brantley-Newton, Frank Morrison, Vashti Harrison, Jerry Pinkney, Ashley Evans, Nina Crews, AG Evans, Ebony Glenn and Kadir Nelson to name a few.
Community Organizing or Organized: Natural Position of Allyship
- Authentic voices and contributions of the Black Experience
- Black Freedom Under a White Gaze
- Depictions of Beauty and Identity reflect command standards and measure of cultural excellence
- Health and wellness for all representations of Blackness
- Black Skin and the environment
- Go Pro or Stay Home... Affordability, Accessibility and Type of Skin Care Providers
- Defining common and specific skin conditions
Check out this week's reading suggestion and check out favoritelibrarian.com
"Feminist Weed Farmer:Growing Mindful Medicine in Your Own Back Yard" by Madrone Stewart
"Black Skin: The Definitive Skincare Guide" by Dija Ayodele
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Enjoy Your Favorite Librarian's examination of the benefits, usages, and examples of self-love. Specifically, this episode celebrates and explores how Black Women, and the Black community, define and utilize self-love.
In this episode, readers will also explore the following:
- Define and Maintaining a Foundation of Love and Support
- Limits, Boundaries, and Managing Expectations
- Self-Discipline and Accountability
- Combatting Versions of Yourself
As you continue your reading, check out this week's paired titles. For more information, check out favoritelibrarian.com.
"Feminist Weed Farmer: Growing Mindful Medicine in Your Own Back Yard" by Madrone Stewart
"Fattily Ever After: A Black Fat Girls Guide to Living Life Unapologetically" by Stephanie Yeboah
There is a book out there for you. Continue reading, my friends!
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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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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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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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This week, Your Favorite Librarian explores Pro-Blackness and Cancel Culture. This episode examines how Cancel Culture supports some traditional definitions and shapes expressions of Pro-Blackness. Throughout the episode, Your Favorite Librarian also illustrates the cornerstone of Cancel Culture and how gatekeeping, in an act to protect and preserve Black Culture and Excellence may not be the best approach for all contributors of the Black Experience.
This week's reading selections in includes the following:
"Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist" by Franchesca Ramsey
"Hidden Legacies: African Presence in European Antiques" by Tanzy Ward
"A Black Theology of Liberation: 20th Anniversary Edition" by James H. Cone
"Blaxhaustion, Karens and Other Threats to Black Lives and Well-Being" by Theresa M. Robinson
Episode IX also specifically explores gender and race-based emotions, White Complicity and Performance Wokeness, History or Relevance and to whom is the true villain.
From Blaxhaustion, the burden of racial and social injustices and navigating implicit bias in the Black community.. this episode if packed with insight.
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This week, Your Favorite Librarian shares her personal stories navigating and battling anxiety. Before or after checking out Episode 8, check out this uplifting reading list, to guide you along.
"Persepolis: The Story of A Childhood" by Marjane Satrapi
"You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience" by Tarana Burke and Brene and Brown
"You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays" by Zora Neale Hurston
"100 Days Inside" by Madison Martin and Fionna M. Wright
Your Favorite Librarian defines what Generalized Anxiety Disorder is based off the DSM-5's guidance, shares tools to help readers navigate challenging and difficult emotions, and situations, and also provides real-life examples and tools of how to be your best self... with anixety.
From dancing to channel negative and anxious energy, engaging in laughter to escape from bouts of lowness, hiking to engage in a new environment, or mediating to detach, or reconnect... Reading can provide readers an opportunity to figure out what mental health tool or resource is best.
This Week's Honorable Mentions include:
"I Don't Want to Die Poor" by M. Arceneaux
"It's About Drama Time" by Arlan Hamilton
"Fear the Black Body" by Sabrina S.
You are not alone-- there is something for you. Continue reading!
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This week, Your Favorite Librarian defines and examines exactly what Community is and how readers can strengthen their understand on how to contribute to such. Broken up into three major elements: Foundation, Core, and Practice-- join Your Favorite Librarian for a jam-packed episode.
This episode is meant to inform readers on how individuality contributes to the foundation of community and personal stability. As readers discovery themselves with each or new titles, reading provides any reader refined insight on how to locate or participate in their respective circles.
From shared interests and culture, and just how participation looks in all variation-- readers will leave feeling empowered to seek the intimacy and curated energy of any community.
Readers' personal commitment to visibility and transparency also articulates the multiple and beautiful intersections that complete communities around the world. Before you finish this week's episode, check the paired reading selections.
"A Garden for Black Boys: Between the Stages of Soil and Stardust" by W.J. Lofton
"#InspiredbyaBlackWoman: Loved by a Black Femme" by Ali D Collins
"Please: Radical Self-Care for Wild Women of Color" by Black Girl Bliss
"#VeryBrave, #VeryBrave" by Nicole Byer
Aquaman Vol. 8 #57 (2020) by Kelly Sue DeConnick
Get ready for the mid-season special with Episode 8, to be released January 6, 2022.
You are not alone-- continue reading. There is a book out there for you.
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With this episode, Your Favorite Librarian examines how to refine your journey to the highest version of yourself. Before getting started with this episode, check out this awesome reading selections.
"The Sisters are Alright: Changing the Broken Narratives of Black Women in America" by Tamara Winfrey Harris
"Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit" by Mary-Frances Winters
"Your Black Friend and Other Strangers" by Ben Passmore
"Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotion to Help Out Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive" by Marc Brackett, Ph.D.
As you define your terms and personal glossary, your definitions reflect how support and service looks for you. How you receive and react to support also illustrates how you value and define support in your life. Reading provides you tools, and insight, to examine, label, define and understand emotions.
This week's titles will provide an array of intersections and colorful narratives that will guide you along your healing and growth. Progress is not linear but each step is essential and contributes to a path of progression.
Enjoy this week's episode and titles! Remember, friends-- you are not alone. Whether at your best or your lowest, there is something for you. Continue reading!
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This episode, Your Favorite Librarian explores how readers can recharge and reconnect to with reading. From going "Back to the Basics," the importance of poetry, and examining how the intersectionality of multiple narratives around you also a fulcrum-- providing a balance and wealth of history, information, and insight.
To guide readers with this week's episode, check out these great titles Your Favorite Librarian mentions throughout the episode. They include:
- "Death of A Salesman" by Athur Miller
- "Pussy Prayers: Sacred and Survival Rituals for Wild Women of Color" by Black Girl Bliss
- "A Book for the Shelf: Rantings and Writings of a Black, Queer, Polyamorous Woman" by Arielle D. Clark
- "The Tradition" by Jericho Brown
- "South to American: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation:" by Imani Perry
As you gain insight on how to properly utilize reading and literature as a tool to craft a space of healing and care but to also provide you a space to recharge and reconnect with yourself.
You are never alone, friends. There is always a book out there for you-- continue reading. For more Black or QPOC Literature, check out favoritelibrarian.com or Instagram @FavoriteLibrarian.
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Join Your Favorite Librarian this episode to explore how reading is an act of self-care, an example of escapism, self-improvement and a great way to explore personal interests and passions.
Many of us have heard the phrase "strong reader" or other disparaging remarks that effect our confidence to continue reading later in life. Say less, Your Favorite Librarian has a few pointers and colorful insight.
Reading can literally take you anywhere--- redirect your thinking, master specific comprehension and reading skills, or discovery the world around you with a great book. From discovering which genre best reflects your interests and strengths to finding support throughout the page you read... you are not alone. Check out this week's reading suggestions:
"Sula" by Toni Morrison
"Black Girl, Call Home" by Jasmine Mans
"Honeypot" by E. Patrick Johnson
"Black Nerd Problem" by William Evans and Omar Holmon
"It's About Damn Time" by Arlan Hamilton
Continue reading, friend! You are not alone-- there is something for you.
(This episode was influenced and inspired by a small batch of Uncle Nearest 1884 whiskey... the smoothest whiskey in Tennessee. For more information on the label, be sure to browse their official website. Drink responsibly.)
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Join Your Favorite Librarian this week as she shares some titles, tools, and insight on how reading is an act of Self Discipline.
Firstly, check out this week's reading list of titles to guide you along your journey. This episode's suggestions include:
"Brujas: The Magic and Power of Witches of Color" by Lorraine Monteagut, PhD
"The Black Trans Prayer Book" by J Mase III and Lady Dane Figuera Edidi
"This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female and Feminist in (White) America" by Morgan Jerkins
"Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen: The Emotional Lives of Black Women" by Inger Burnett-Zeigler, PhD
"Storm for the Living and the Dead" by Charles Bukowski
Allow this episode to contribute to the great energy in your safe space or provide an energy that compliments you. You are constantly evolving and growing-- and reading is a fulcrum, providing a balance, and wealth, of information and insight.
As you continue defining your interests and passions, refine your strengths, explore your weakness-- allow reading to assist you. You are not alone, my friend!
There is a book out there for you. Continue reading!
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Join Your Favorite Librarian to explore colorful options of applying what you know after reading great pieces of literature.
From journaling your progress, refining your communication and great collaboration, or ways to reflect-- applying what you know has its benefits. As you evolve, reading will continuously take you to places you may not have imagined. As you open your heart, your mind will open as well.
Continue reading, friends. There is a book out there for you.
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Join Your Favorite Librarian for the first episode of her official podcast. Throughout the weeks, explore great pieces of literature, ways to gain greater insight about yourself, apply what you read and explore what you enjoy.
This week, Your Favorite Librarian encourages readers to define and explore what they love as the first step to refining your or crafting a love for reading. If you know or can define what you love, exploring your interests will surely be an adventure.
When you open a book, you gain access to communities, cultures, and histories around you. You are not alone when you read-- there is something for you.
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