About us
We are a community formed around the celebration and uplifting of black women. We enjoy reading, but we enjoy following that reading up with an awesome in-depth discussion and sharing of ideas and opinions (preferably over snacks and tea) *even more*. We cover it all, from dismantling the master's house with Audre Lorde to exploring Afrofuturism and black women in sci-fi/fantasy with Octavia Butler and Nnedi Okorafor to dissecting the works of Wangechi Mutu and Kara Walker, and everything in between, to the left and the right, above and below. This group is for black readers who seek and want to connect with other equally dope black readers. All ages and genders welcome.
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Discussion: Lose Your Mother by Saidiya Hartman
The Sanctuary, 4020 Broadway, Oakland, CA, USHey beloveds! We’re journeying across oceans in our November book, Lose Your Mother by Saidiya Hartman, which traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade and considers what it means to be a “stranger” in one’s motherland. We’re so pleased to have our discussion hosted by The Sanctuary, an apothecary and wellness studio owned by Black queer women. This is sure to be an evocative read and we’re grateful to be able to process this book in community and in spaces that we’ve conjured and nurtured for our own healing and belonging. Please consider supporting our host by getting a copy of the book from The Sanctuary using this link .
Warmly,
JillianBook description:
In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey she took along a slave route in Ghana. Following the trail of captives from the hinterland to the Atlantic coast, she reckons with the blank slate of her own genealogy and vividly dramatizes the effects of slavery on three centuries of African and African American history.The slave, Hartman observes, is a stranger—torn from family, home, and country. To lose your mother is to be severed from your kin, to forget your past, and to inhabit the world as an outsider. There are no known survivors of Hartman’s lineage, no relatives in Ghana whom she came hoping to find. She is a stranger in search of strangers, and this fact leads her into intimate engagements with the people she encounters along the way and with figures from the past whose lives were shattered and transformed by the slave trade. Written in prose that is fresh, insightful, and deeply affecting, Lose Your Mother is a “landmark text” (Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams).
Getting the Book:
Please consider purchasing the book from our host, The Sanctuary. You can have a copy shipped to you or reserved for pick-up using this link .This book is also available at the Oakland Public Library and the San Francisco Public Library.
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