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Elise Hearn
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Neurodivergent, public librarian, wife and dog-mama trying to make her way through this contradictory world.
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It's Black History Month and much like these celebratory months books can be mirrors or windows/doors. Each day of BHM I will post a book that gave me window/door. These are in no order but a wide range of genres.
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#books #booksky #blackhistorymonth
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February 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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It's Black History Month and much like these celebratory months books can be mirrors or windows/doors. Each day of BHM I will post a book that gave me window/door. These are in no order but a wide range of genres.
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#books #booksky #blackhistorymonth #thriller
While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams
From celebrated national leader and bestselling author Stacey Abrams, While Justice Sleeps is a g...
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February 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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It's Black History Month- these celebratory months and books can be mirrors or windows/doors. Each day of BHM I will post a book that gave me a window/door. These are in no order but a wide range of genres.
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#books #booksky #blackhistorymonth #LGBTQ+ #memoir
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde
A little black girl opens her eyes in 1930s Harlem. Around her, a heady swirl of passers-by, car ...
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February 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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It's Black History Month- these celebratory months and books can be mirrors or windows/doors. Each day of BHM I will post a book that gave me a window/door. These are in no order but a wide range of genres.
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#books #booksky #blackhistorymonth #childcare
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
A striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice, Such a Fun Age is a page-tu...
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February 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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It's Black History Month- these celebratory months and books can be mirrors or windows/doors. Each day of BHM I will post a book that gave me a window/door. These are in no order but a wide range of genres.
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#books #booksky #blackhistorymonth #identity
These Ghosts Are Family by Maisy Card
Longlisted for the 2020 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize A "rich, ambitious debut novel" (The...
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February 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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It's Black History Month- these celebratory months and books can be mirrors or windows/doors. Each day of BHM I will post a book that gave me a window/door. These are in no order but a wide range of genres.
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#books #booksky #blackhistorymonth #romance #romcom
The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory
A groomsman and his last-minute guest are about to discover if a fake date can go the distance in...
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February 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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It's Black History Month- these celebratory months and books can be mirrors or windows/doors. Each day of BHM I will post a book that gave me a window/door. These are in no order but a wide range of genres.
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#books #booksky #blackhistorymonth #memoir
Hunger by Roxane Gay
New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food...
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February 24, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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It's Black History Month- these celebratory months and books can be mirrors or windows/doors. Each day of BHM I will post a book that gave me a window/door. These are in no order but a wide range of genres.
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#books #booksky #blackhistorymonth #americanhistory
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston
In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-si...
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February 24, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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It's Black History Month- these celebratory months and books can be mirrors or windows/doors. Each day of BHM I will post a book that gave me a window/door. These are in no order but a wide range of genres.
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#books #bookstore #blackhistorymonth #bookerprize
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE "A must-read about modern Britain and womanhood . ....
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February 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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It's Black History Month- these celebratory months and books can be mirrors or windows/doors. Each day of BHM I will post a book that gave me a window/door. These are in no order but a wide range of genres.
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#books #booksky #blackhistorymonth #romance
Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan
Award-winning and bestselling "powerhouse" author Kennedy Ryan is at her absolute best in this co...
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February 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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It's Black History Month- these celebratory months and books can be mirrors or windows/doors. Each day of BHM I will post a book that gave me a window/door. These are in no order but a wide range of genres.
#booksky #books #blackhistorymonth #rubybridges
mychal3ts.bsky.social Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · Feb 18
Please talk with your loved ones about Ruby Bridges. Read “I Am Ruby Bridges” by Ruby Bridges 💛

The first Black child at an all-white public elementary school in Louisiana. She was only six-years-old when she made history marching into that school.

Ruby Bridges is living history. She's only 70!
I AM RUBY BRIDGES by Ruby Bridges, illustrated by Nikkolas Smith Ruby Bridges today on the left, Ruby Bridges as a child on the right (smiling and standing proudly)
February 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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More intersectional Trans Black History for #blackhistorymonth
gbbranstetter.bsky.social Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · Feb 16
The story of Frances Thompson (a black trans woman who testified to Congress in 1866 about white men who sexually assaulted during the Memphis Massacre) is so incredibly telling to me because the southern media used her status as a trans woman as proof all testimony against them was a lie
She was the first transgender woman to testify before Congress. Then conservatives began attacking her identity | CNN
Frances Thompson’s testimony in 1866 came at a critical time, as the nation weighed whether to expand equal constitutional protections to newly freed Black Americans. But it also came at a great perso...
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February 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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It's Black History Month- these celebratory months and books can be mirrors or windows/doors. Each day of BHM I will post a book that gave me a window/door. These are in no order but a wide range of genres.
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#booksky #books #blackhistorymonth #YAfic
The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
The #1 New York Times bestseller and National Book Award Finalist from the bestselling author of ...
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February 17, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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It's Black History Month- these celebratory months and books can be mirrors or windows/doors. Each day of BHM I will post a book that gave me a window/door. These are in no order but a wide range of genres.
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#booksky #books #blackhistorymonth #historicalfiction
Island Queen by Vanessa Riley
Born into slavery on the tiny Caribbean island of Montserrat, Doll bought her freedom—and that of...
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February 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
squaredlibrarian.bsky.social
It's Black History Month- these celebratory months and books can be mirrors or windows/doors. Each day of BHM I will post a book that gave me a window/door. These are in no order but a wide range of genres.
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#booksky #books #blackhistorymonth #africanfuturism
The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor
A fiery spirit dances from the pages of the Great Book. She brings the aroma of scorched sand and...
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February 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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It's Black History Month- these celebratory months and books can be mirrors or windows/doors. Each day of BHM I will post a book that gave me a window/door. These are in no order but a wide range of genres.
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#booksky #books #trans #blackhistorymonth
My Rainbow by Deshanna Neal, Trinity Neal
A dedicated mom puts love into action as she creates the perfect rainbow-colored wig for her tran...
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February 15, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Sharing this great interview with Marsha and Sylvia conducted the year after the Stonewall uprising. They discuss their understanding of themselves as transvestites, transsexuals, and women, but the part of their identity most commonly erased is that of radical revolutionaries
Bonus Episode — From the Vault: Sylvia Rivera & Marsha P. Johnson, 1970 | Making Gay History
Bringing LGBTQ+ history to life through the voices of the people who lived it.
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February 14, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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As the National Parks remove all mention of Trans people from the Stonewall memorial let's remember Marsha P. Johnson this year during Black History Month. #blackhistorymonth #books #booksky #trans #stonewall #marsha
February 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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It's Black History Month- these celebratory months and books can be mirrors or windows/doors. Each day of BHM I will post a book that gave me a window/door. These are in no order but a wide range of genres.
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#booksky #books #blackhistorymonth
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of t...
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February 13, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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It's Black History Month- these celebratory months and books can be mirrors or windows/doors. Each day of BHM I will post a book that gave me a window/door. These are in no order but a wide range of genres.
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#booksky #books #blackhistorymonth #queer
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
An unexpected teenage pregnancy pulls together two families from different social classes, and ex...
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February 12, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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While I believe that survival is the best form of resistance I also acknowledge there is a point where one can no longer continue on. Check in on your trans loved ones, they need it right now.
erininthemorning.com Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Feb 11
I'm sad to share that the trans vet that took her life outside the VA last week was apparently Elisa Rae Shupe.

She's someone many of us know - she was responsible for the mass email leak that let us know how the ADF, Heritage, etc planned to enact trans eradication we see today.

RIP Elisa.
Vet found hanging draped in trans flag
The suicide letter they won't publish
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February 12, 2025 at 2:22 AM
squaredlibrarian.bsky.social
It's Black History Month- these celebratory months and books can be mirrors or windows/doors. Each day of BHM I will post a book that gave me a window/door. These are in no order but a wide range of genres.
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#booksky #books #blackhistorymonth #trans #queer
The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE Electrifying. -- O Magazine  N...
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February 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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It's Black History Month- these celebratory months and books can be mirrors or windows/doors. Each day of BHM I will post a book that gave me a window/door. These are in no order but a wide range of genres.
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#booksky #books #blackhistorymonth #food #soulfood
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W. Twitty
2018 James Beard Foundation Book of the Year | 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award Winner inWr...
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February 10, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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It's Black History Month- these celebratory months and books can be mirrors or windows/doors. Each day of BHM I will post a book that gave me a window/door. These are in no order but a wide range of genres.
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#booksky #books #blackhistorymonth #jamesbaldwin
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
In this honest and stunning novel that inspired the award-winning major motion picture of the sam...
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February 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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It's Black History Month- these celebratory months and books can be mirrors or windows/doors. Each day of BHM I will post a book that gave me a window/door. These are in no order but a wide range of genres.
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#booksky #books #blackhistorymonth #disability #romcom
Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
Chloe Brown is a chronically ill computer geek with a goal, a plan, and a list. After almost--but...
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February 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM