Birmingham Public Library Presents: be gentle with black girls

2100 Park Place,Birmingham AL 35203

22 September, 2022

Description

be gentle with black girls is a live reading with the author Tania De'Shawn, followed by a panelist discussion with: Ashley M. Jones, Alabama Poet Laureate, as moderator DeJuana Thompson, President and CEO of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Lauren Whatley, a Women's Studies professor at the University of Alabama and an expert on race, gender, and systems of oppression Queen daPoetess, local poetess and co-owner of Majesty Lounge Patrons can also participate in an Oriki station (Praise Poems from a West African tradition, affirming oneself through relationships between kinship and destiny), a "black girlhood be sacred: Stories behind Our Softness and Strength" story station with the BPL Archives and Southern History Department to contribute their own stories of black girlhood, a book signing, and a raffle to win a copy of "be gentle with black girls." *Discussions may touch on matters not intended for children. Young adults and older are welcome.