The Deliberate & Unafraid Book Club Is Back!
For the last few months, the book club has been on a short hiatus as I completed my first children’s book, Art of Protest. 🥳
Ahead of its October 12 release, I am bringing back De&U Book Club so that we can keep reading, celebrating, and learning from even more BIPOC, queer, and womxn authors.
Below you will see the three books we will read throughout the rest of 2021, and I’ve added even more to our Gamba Adisa “Warrior” library that have kept me inspired. Stay tuned for all new events, community gatherings, and book talks featuring these following works, and if you have any suggestions for books we should read in 2022, please feel free to send your suggestions!
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What We’re Reading
August—Run: Book One
By John Lewis
In August, join me in reading John Lewis’s posthumous autobiographical graphic novel, which tells stories from his life during the 1960’s civil rights movement.
Stay tuned for my discussion of this book’s illustrators in collaboration with Left Bank Books in St. Louis, MO.
October—Art of Protest: Creating, Discovering, and Activating Art for Your Revolution
By De Nichols
Join me in October as I share life stories exploring and making protest art as a young person. Learn about artworks, people, social movements, and artistic practices that can equip you to enliven the causes you care about most.
Want a postcard ahead of the launch? Once you pre-order, send me your mailing address, and I will send you a handwritten note!
December—The Vanishing Half
By Brit Bennett
“Weaving together multiple strands and generations of this family, from the Deep South to California, from the 1950s to the 1990s, Brit Bennett produces a story that is at once a riveting, emotional family story and a brilliant exploration of the American history of passing.”