Black Feminist Book Club

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Oakland, CA, US

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: Kin by Tayari Jones
Sat, Sep 19 · 1:00 PM PDT
Paschal-Hunter Gallery, 942 Clay St, Oakland, CA, US
Soooo everyone has been reading and talking about this one — from Oprah's Book Club to President Obama's Summer Reading List. Lets get into it and see what the hype is about, shall we?! Personal spoiler: I'M INTO IT (half way done). So many topics too explore! Excited for our lively discussion which will be facilitated by our lovely, long time member Kena!

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Book description:
Vernice and Annie, two motherless daughters raised in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, have been best friends and neighbors since earliest childhood, but are fated to live starkly different lives. Raised by a fierce aunt determined to give her a stable home in the wake of her mother’s death, Vernice leaves Atlanta at eighteen for Spelman College, where she joins a sisterhood of powerfully connected Black women and marries into an affluent family. Annie, abandoned by her dissolute mother as a child, and fixated on the idea of finding her and filling the bottomless hole left by her absence, sets off on a journey that will take her into a world of peril and adversity, as well as love and adventure, and culminate in a battle for her life.

Getting the Book:
If you'd like to shop local and Black-owned there’s the beloved Marcus Books. You can give them a call to reserve a copy and visit them at:

Marcus Books - 1 (510) 652-2344
3900 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Oakland, CA 94609

This book is also available at the Oakland Public Library and the San Francisco Public Library.
The audiobook is also included in Spotify Premium subscription.

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