Seattle/Black Feminist Library

04/03/2024

Today!

We're partnering with Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History to present Nikki Giovanni, one of this country’s most widely read poets and one of America’s most renowned poets worldwide. Learn more about her life and work when you watch The Wright Conversations with Poet Nikki Giovanni TONIGHT at 8 PM ET.

12/17/2021

Some of the ways we had done bell hooks around here.

12/15/2021

I'm so insanely devastated. Rest in Power, bell hooks.

05/31/2021

What's your current situation? Here's mine - The Little Book of Big Lies - A Journey into Inner Fitness.

02/22/2021

Mood! Sacred Woman: A Guide to Healing the Feminine Body, Mind, and Spirit.

02/11/2021

Black Women Radicals Presents

A Kick in the Belly: A Conversation with Stella Dadzie - Supported by the Black Cultural Archives (BCA)

On Wednesday, February 17th at 12:30 PM EST/5:30 pm GMT, Black feminist pioneer Stella Dadzie will discuss her latest book, "A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery and Resistance", which chronicles the story of how enslaved West Indian women struggled for freedom in the Caribbean.

Karima Ali of the Black Cultural Archives will lead an intergenerational dialogues with Dadzie about her work as a founder-member of the Organisation of Women of Asian and African Descent (OWAAD), which has been called "a watershed in the history of Black women's rights activism in Britain".

Register here: http://bit.ly/stelladadzie

Repost from

02/11/2021

Reminder that this hella cute button pack is a thing all February

02/05/2021

A few years back I went to a handful of countries in Europe and one of my goals while there was to bring back material to the S/BFL and establish a section on Black feminism across continents. I fared really well in England, and on that trip I learned about the incredible work of Valerie Mason John, who I learned wasn't so far from us in Seattle, and so we invited her and had the insane pleasure of hosting and listening to her discuss Black feminism in Britain. I'm always eager to learn more, and so this is on my reading list next!: To Exist is to Resist - Black Feminism in Europe, edited by Akwugo Emejuly and Francesca Sobande. What do you know about Black feminism in Europe?

02/02/2021

They asked her: "how did you persuade your child to read instead of playing with smart devices?!"

She said: "Children don't hear us, they imitate us"

02/01/2021

Happy Black Her/His/Theirstory (and Valentine's Day) Month! Q made these buttons celebrating some amazing Black women and their words on love - Maya Angelou, bell hooks, Octavia Butler and Assata Shakur. The buttons say:

Love Liberates – Maya Angelou
The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination – bell hooks
Kindness eases change, love quiets fear – Octavia Butler
We must LOVE each other – Assata Shakur

If you'd like a set of your very own and to help out with a great project, then follow the link!
https://blackfeministlibrary.wordpress.com/2021/01/26/black-feminist-love-buttons/

01/26/2021

Repost via The Free Black Women's Library! She's doing some exciting stuff!

07/14/2020

What y'all doing this afternoon, Brownies?