I Am A Caterpillar Who Cocoons Every Other Season.

HAPPY NEW YEARS BOOK LOVERS!!

Who is joining me for The Free Black Women’s Library Reading Challenge this year??

Our goal is to read 30 books by Black women in 2019, attached are the categories to serve as your inspiration.

Thanks to doing this challenge last year I managed to read 32 books by Black women, I got some serious food for my mind and heart in the process, I’m excited to go at it again.

Join me!!

Please feel free to share this far and wide, and tag The Free Black Women’s Library in your reads on FB and Instagram!!

(Also use the hashtags so we can stay connected, especially on Instagram)

Looking forward to seeing what great titles people folks come up with and enjoy!!

Wishing all an amazing year of reading that nurtures and encourages the essence of who you are!! Blessings!!

New acquisition for The Free Black Women’s Library 🖤 ⭐️ a book I’ve been wanting to read for a long minute, THE GAMES THAT BLACK GIRLS PLAY - Learning the ropes from Double Dutch to Hip Hop by Kyra Gaunt. As someone who is deeply invested in Black girl culture and Black girl creativity, I’ve been very curious about this book by brilliant writer, professor and ethnomusicologist Kyra Gaunt since I first heard of it years ago. When we think of Black popular music, our first thought is probably not of double Dutch; girls bouncing between two twirling ropes, keeping time to the tick tat under their toes. But this book argues that the games Black girls play – hand clapping songs, cheers, and double Dutch jump rope both reflect and iinspire the principles of Black popular music making. This book illustrates how our musical styles are incorporated into the earliest games girls learn and how in a fact these games contain the DNA of Black music. In this celebration of playground poetry and childhood choreography, through interviews, recordings, personal memories and anecdotes Kyra uncovers the rich contributions of girls play to Black popular culture.

I am a non binary black woman

I am a Black Femme

I am a spirit

I am a reflection of my creator

Gender performance is an expression

How we display our gender is based on our understanding of who we are.

How we perform our expression of self with the vessel were given is up to us.

I am spirit and spirit is not gendered

Man is.

Gender is a man made construct.

So if I am spirit like my creator, my reflection and expression of my spirit is based in what?

A choice

Who I was taught to be was a black femme.

How I was conditioned to perform and how I intuitively express

Is as a black femme

Who I reflect is who I was made in the image of

Generations of creators passing their image

Their expressions

Their reactions

Their performances

To me

The reflections of the range and depth of black femme, will forever continue to influence the shape of the world I be in.

It’s this lens that morphs my understanding of myself and my selfs expression.

With the understanding and encouragement

To continue to push and morph the lens

Break it if needed

And thus continuing to expand and experiment

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And lastly

If gender is a construct anyway and language can be mailable. then why not find the right words to best express for the present and future understandings of self. Facts can be temporary as the present state of a matter or idea are applicable in the present. But as time moves forward, the present does too. And previous facts only remain facts in context of their historical stand point.

Express for the present

Change your expression with your understanding.

If you’d like .

belle sophie by alexandre thomas bui for volition magazine

Hasan Minhaj testifies before Congress on the student loan crisis

Favour Jonathan Uses Passport Style Selfies to Celebrate Black Hair.

Dead and no way to remember and memorialize them. Gone with no connections, no heirlooms… that shit hurts.

And that is exactly why they didn’t want them reading and writing! They knew that written documents could be used as pieces of history to connect us

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Self Love Is the first step to global love.

https://www.instagram.com/thepersonalquotes/

It malfunctioned

I Will Never Again Speak Another Negative Word

I will say I can , instead of I can*t.

It’s no longer a word in my vocabulary.