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Crystal N. Dunivant
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Social Worker • Consultant and Trainer • We do not talk about psychosis enough • Lover of good books📚💙
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Nana and I needed to ground ourselves in something familiar so we are reading If Beale Street Could Talk.

We are wondering what you are reading this evening.

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Book cover of If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin.
October 28, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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It is Banned Books Week.

The Bluest Eye was my first novel by Toni Morrison. It is beat up and the pages are yellow but still one of my all time favorites.

What is your best banned book?

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The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison book cover with a pretty brown face wearing a brown hat, red cardigan sweater, and white dress. Toni at Random is at the top to the left.
October 7, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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This book has been such a needed balm. It is so tender.

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Book cover with two people. One has pink hair and one has blue hair. They are facing the opposite direction of each other with a hand on a shoulder.
September 12, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Green book cover with gold snake. Dominion by Addie E. Citchens.
September 4, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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I just said nonfiction was my favorite but this novel right here left me speechless.

I like my characters messy with a lot of twists and turns. Dominion exceeded those expectations. And Addie E. Citchens wraps it up in under 250 pages.

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Green book cover with a gold snake and cross. Dominion by Addie E. Citchens.
September 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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I started listening to No More Tears yesterday🤬

Don’t let the number of hours keep you away. It is clear, concise, and the author does a good job of keeping you engaged. I did take a break because I felt myself getting so angry.

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Audio of No More Tears by Gardiner Harris in blue letters with a white background. Book looks like a baby powder bottle. Screenshot of the news headline US judge rejects J&J’s $10 billion baby powder settlement.
August 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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I carry this collection with me in the car because I don’t want to be away from it.

Hell’s Bells made me think of this VS episode with W.J. Lofton where he said, “how do you talk to me about hell when I don’t believe in prisons.”

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White book cover with people in the middle and red letters that read Scorched Earth by Tiana Clark.
August 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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I just started reading but had to share this cover. It is beautiful.

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Paperback book Make Your Way Home by Carrie R. Moore with a beautiful Black person with big hair and green all around them.
August 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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This gem arrived a couple of weeks ago but I am just now reading it. I am looking forward to learning more about Toni Morrison (from Lorain, Ohio) as an editor. I am also exited that Libby had the ebook available so I have more options. Libraries are important.

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White book cover that reads Toni at Random at the top with a beautiful picture of Toni Morrison written by Dana A. Williams.
July 12, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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I finished Challenger and thought I needed to read a less intense story. Well, Isaac is keeping me on my toes and he just had be pulling out a pencil with my copy of The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin. I am having a good time.

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Screenshot of my Libby app loan of Isaac’s Song by Daniel Black in red letters. Book cover has a light pink background with a person with brown skin and a brown shirt.
June 17, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Pride is about more than visibility and celebration — it’s a call to action. The rights of LGBTQIA+ people are being actively eroded by the Ohio General Assembly, federal administration, and Congress. We must organize, advocate, and fight back. Take action now: naswoh.org/currentlegislation
Rainbow graphic with NASW Ohio It’s time to fight for Pride in white letters.
June 2, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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I am reading and listening to all the books right now but this is my favorite.

What are you reading this weekend?

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Book cover. Person with brown skin in the middle and another person with beautiful brown skin to the right surrounded by blue. Black in Blues by Imani Perry.
April 25, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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I sat patiently all day waiting for my mail carrier. They did not disappoint.

Tell me about a poetry collection that you enjoyed reading.

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Book cover of Blessing the Boats by Lucille Clifton. New and selected poems 1988-2000. A picture of a person tied up on a boat with people watching from the shore sits in the middle of the cover.
April 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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I am trying to channel some of this energy.

April is National Poetry Month. This is one of my favorite covers. It feels like home.

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Book cover with a Black child with beautiful and colorful barrettes in their hair. Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans.
April 7, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Picture of a post. I am talking about Ross Gay and joy. A cliff overlooking the ocean at the bottom reading We are still Here.
March 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Apparently it is now March and March is Social Work Month.

Social work is not about being nice but is much more than perpetuating harm on children and families.

All social work should be rooted in advocacy, social justice, and political action.

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March is Social Work Thank You Social Workers in gold letters. Shiny gold trim around the graphic.
March 5, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Orange book cover of Harlem Rhapsody with a person in the middle with a green dress reading a book with little people dancing around the train.
February 27, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Yesterday was Nina Simone’s birthday. Her voice and words have been a salve this morning. We have no choice but to continue the fight but today I will rest and maybe find a little joy and pleasure.
A red album cover with a picture of Nina Simone. Feeling Good Her Greatest Hits in the middle.
February 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Taking my time with this one.
Book cover with white background and red apple with a bite out in the left. Original Sins - Eve L. Ewing in black lettering.
February 22, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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I am was so busy clapping and yelling that I forgot to add the book title and cover.
Book cover with a picture of Toni Morrison taken from the side with her lovely brown skin and gray hair. Reads The Source of Self-Regard.
February 12, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Students, staff, and faculty in Ohio are concerned⬇️ The hearing is scheduled for next Tuesday. You still have to time to submit written or in-person testimony with witness slip. They are due on Monday before 2 pm. Instructions can be found here www.naswoh.org/page/current...
Ohio SB 1, the new version of the Higher Education Destruction Act (SB 83 from the 135th GA) is moving quickly with a hearing scheduled for February 11, 2025, at 11 am. If passed, the restrictions on diversity, equity, and inclusion content could result in Ohio social work programs losing CSWE accreditation and thus preventing their graduates from getting licensed. Take action naswoh.org/currentlegislation.
February 8, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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More of this please.

Find the conversation with Dr. Benjamin @medpagetoday.bsky.social
Public health journal won’t be complicit in Trump’s admin’s censorship. “We will publish things under our guidelines, under our ethical principles.” Picture of Dr. Benjamin smiling with glasses, shirt, tie, and jacket.
February 6, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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“My soul was stirred in me, and maddened to desperation, to think that we had placed our lives in such imminent peril, through the persuasions of such false-heartedness, and now told to go back home to our masters!” James Roberts, Soldier in the War of 1812

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Book cover with blue skies and greenery in the background. A human in the middle with dark skin but no distinguishable features wears a white shirt, orange vest, and red jacket. In Open Contempt Confronting White Supremacy in Arts and Public Spaces Irvin Weathersby, Jr. in white lettering.
February 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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I have been listening to Just as I Am all week and it has been such a lovely experience. Ms. Tyson’s voice is the balm I did not know I needed.

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The audiobook cover of a side view of Cicely Tyson looking fierce with a bold necklace and black shirt. Beige background with Just as I Am - Cicely Tyson at the top. 12: Going Natural Table of Contents at the bottom.
January 31, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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“Who is in charge of the CDC right now? Nobody knows for sure.”

You can’t make this up.

Latest Morning Break from MEDPAGE TODAY.
Facebooks and Instagram blurring, blocking, and deleting posts of abortion pill providers. Lawmakers in GOP-led states are pursuing bills that would treat abortion as homicide. In Mississippi, a state senator introduced “Contraception Begins At Erection Act” a bill that would make it unlawful for a person to discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize an embryo. Nobody seems to now who’s in charge of the CDC. United Healthcare has a new CEO. The World Health Organization is planning to cut costs and reprioritize after US withdrawal.
January 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM