At work, we have a staff bookclub where a genre is chosen each month and everyone can read a book…
Category: By Women of Color
By Women of Color – Dear Dad: Growing Up with a Parent in Prison — and How We Stayed Connected by Jay Jay Patton and illustrators Kiara Valdez and Markia Jenai
This was a cute and touching read! I loved seeing Jay Jay connect with her dad and them working on…
By Women of Color – The Marvellers by Dhonielle Clayton
This was such a fabulous book! It was filled with so much diverse magic and wonder and I absolutely adored…
By Women of Color – Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
My sister once asked me “How come there are no fantasy novels written by black people?” Of course, I’m sure…
By Women of Color – Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
I started reading Everything, Everything by Jamaican-American Nicola Yoon on a whim one night at midnight. I had only meant…
By Women of Color – The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco
I remember when I had $100 worth of books in my arms at the bookstore. The problem was, I didn’t have $100. I ended up having to put most back and only buying two. I had such a hard time deciding which books I should get, but I knew one of them had to be The…
By Women of Color – God Don’t Like Ugly by Mary Monroe
When I was young (about seven or eight), I slipped a book off of my mom’s bookshelf and opened to a random page. My mom came into the room not ten seconds later, scolded me, and put the book back. Understandable, ’cause God Don’t Like Ugly by black-American Mary Monroe is not a book for seven/eight-year-olds. Ever since…
By Women of Color – The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
The Hate U Give is a book by a black American woman named Angie Thomas, discussing the sensitive topics of race relations and police brutality. Though this is her first novel, Thomas is able to write like a classic author by expertly mixing current politics and entertainment. I wouldn’t be surprised if high schoolers started studying…
By Women of Color – I Sit And Sew by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
I Sit And Sew is a poem written by African American writer, Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson (1875–1935). It is about a woman who despises sitting and sewing while the men are out fighting a war. I fell in love with this poem the moment I read it. It holds so much power and meaning of gender…