read with ericka
My name is Ericka Brooke (she/her) and I am a Book Vlogger from Detroit, MI. Since the last issue, I quit my job as a Librarian to focus on being a full time content creator/book vlogger! (Talk about living Liberated!) This month I'm back with more book recommendations and it's all about celebrating womanhood, whatever way that may look for you! August 1st, is National Sisters Day, August 13th, Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, August 26th Women’s Equality Day, and the entire month of August is National Breastfeeding Month! Featured are books by Black & POC authors to help you celebrate each day! For more book recommendations be sure to follow me on all my social platforms!
ERICKA’S AUGUST RECOMMENDATIONS
NATIONAL BREASTFEEDING MONTH
Melanoid Breastmilk: The First Building Blocks to a Strong Family Foundation & Community by Ariane La’Nea Randolph is an insightful new discussion of motherhood, family bonding, and the Black community. Ariane shows how breastfeeding can have a profound effect on your child, family, and neighborhood.
AUGUST 1: NATIONAL SISTERS DAY
A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow is a captivating modern fantasy about Black sirens, friendship, sisterhood and self-discovery set against the challenges of today's racism and sexism.
AUGUST 13: BLACK WOMEN’S EQUAL PAY DAY
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in White America is Morgan Jerkins' debut collection of essays, intimate stories, and social criticism to investigate the meaning of black womanhood. She chronicles stories of her childhood and adolescence and her painful incursion into a society that privileges whiteness and casts blackness as inferior.
AUGUST 26: WOMEN’S EQUALITY DAY
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie guide on how to empower a daughter to become a strong, independent woman. Filled with compassionate guidance and advice, it gets right to the heart of sexual politics in the twenty-first century, and starts a new and urgently needed conversation about what it really means to be a woman today.
