Call your representatives, email them, use 5calls, and fight for our freedom to get information! Support your local libraries! https://linktr.ee/tomesandtextiles Books Mentioned: Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement Ejeris Dixon , Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Fake Dates and Mooncakes Sher Lee Part of Your World Part of Your World #1 Abby Jimenez Instagram http://instagram.com/thelitbaebookshop/ Libro.fm https://libro.fm/thelitbaebookshop Bookshop.o...
May 09, 2025•31 min•Season 5Ep. 12
Books Mentioned: Transland: Consent, Pleasure and Kink by Mx. Sly The Luis Ortega Survival Club by Sonora Reyes The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah Love in A Fucked Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise hell Together by Dean Spade SUPPORT THE LIT BAE BOOKSHOP on Instagram, Libro.FM, and Bookshop.org Instagram http://instagram.com/thelitbaebookshop/ Libro.fm https://libro.fm/thelitbaebookshop Bookshop.org https://booksho...
Apr 25, 2025•20 min•Season 5Ep. 11
Books mentioned in this episode: Meet Me in Madrid by Verity Lowell Show Notes: Interview with Verity Lowell https://www.bookpage.com/interviews/verity-lowell/ Libro.fm Libro.fm is an employee-owned social purpose corporation that shares profits from your audiobook purchases with your chosen bookstore, giving you the power to keep money within your local economy. It’s also a great alternative to Audible, which is an audiobook platform owned by Amazon. If you would like to gift me an audiobook fr...
Feb 21, 2025•18 min•Season 5Ep. 10
Books Mentioned: Love and Sportsball by Mika James Single Player by Tara Tai Dungeons and Drama by Kristy Bryce Game On by Seressia Glass Libro.fm Libro.fm is an employee-owned social purpose corporation that shares profits from your audiobook purchases with your chosen bookstore, giving you the power to keep money within your local economy. It’s also a great alternative to Audible, which is an audiobook platform owned by Amazon. If you would like to gift me an audiobook from my wishlist to supp...
Feb 14, 2025•39 min•Season 5Ep. 9
Books mentioned in Episode: My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem Libro.fm Libro.fm is an employee-owned social purpose corporation that shares profits from your audiobook purchases with your chosen bookstore, giving you the power to keep money within your local economy. It’s also a great alternative to Audible, which is an audiobook platform owned by Amazon. If you would like to gift me an audiobook from my wishlist to support me the link is here: https://libro.fm/wishlist/1228430 Bookshop.o...
Feb 07, 2025•21 min•Season 5Ep. 8
Books mentioned in this episode: Sweet Vengeance by Viano Oniomoh Phantom’s Thrall by Jessamine Rue Pirates’ Witch by Jessamine Rue Meet Me in Los Feliz by Kelly D. Reynolds Show Notes: Libro.fm Libro.fm is an employee-owned social purpose corporation that shares profits from your audiobook purchases with your chosen bookstore, giving you the power to keep money within your local economy. It’s also a great alternative to Audible, which is an audiobook platform owned by Amazon. If you would like ...
Jan 31, 2025•20 min•Season 5Ep. 7
Books mentioned: Ander and Santi Were Here by Jonny Garza Villa I Wish You All The Best by Mason Deaver Old Wounds by Logan Aahley-Kisner Sources Cited: Transphobia: Transphobia & Transmisia ICE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Immigration_and_Customs_Enforcement https://apnews.com/article/trump-immigration-ice-raids-school-2d899678264f44fe1021847ee385fd15 https://www.teenvogue.com/story/ice-watch-programs-immigrants-how-to-start Libro.fm Libro.fm is an employee-owned social purpose corpor...
Jan 24, 2025•23 min•Season 5Ep. 6
Libro.fm Libro.fm is an employee-owned social purpose corporation that shares profits from your audiobook purchases with your chosen bookstore, giving you the power to keep money within your local economy. It’s also a great alternative to Audible, which is an audiobook platform owned by Amazon. If you would like to gift me an audiobook from my wishlist to support me the link is here: https://libro.fm/wishlist/1228430 Bookshop.org Bookshop.org works to connect readers with independent booksellers...
Jan 17, 2025•27 min•Season 5Ep. 5
Guardian Ai + Publishing article https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/nov/26/writers-condemn-startups-plans-to-publish-8000-books-next-year-using-ai-spines-artificial-intelligence Libro.fm Libro.fm is an employee-owned social purpose corporation that shares profits from your audiobook purchases with your chosen bookstore, giving you the power to keep money within your local economy. It’s also a great alternative to Audible, which is an audiobook platform owned by Amazon. If you would like to g...
Jan 10, 2025•23 min•Season 5Ep. 2
Book Mentioned: I'll Be Gone For Christmas by Georgia K. Boone Libro.fm Libro.fm is an employee-owned social purpose corporation that shares profits from your audiobook purchases with your chosen bookstore, giving you the power to keep money within your local economy. It’s also a great alternative to Audible, which is an audiobook platform owned by Amazon. If you would like to gift me an audiobook from my wishlist to support me the link is here: https://libro.fm/wishlist/1228430 Bookshop.org Boo...
Jan 03, 2025•10 min•Season 5Ep. 3
Books Mentioned: Only For The Cameras by Viano Oniomoh Show Notes: Libro.fm Libro.fm is an employee-owned social purpose corporation that shares profits from your audiobook purchases with your chosen bookstore, giving you the power to keep money within your local economy. It’s also a great alternative to Audible, which is an audiobook platform owned by Amazon. If you would like to gift me an audiobook from my wishlist to support me the link is here: https://libro.fm/wishlist/1228430 Bookshop.org...
Nov 22, 2024•9 min•Season 5Ep. 2
Read Between the Lines by Rachel Lacey Show Notes: Libro.fm Libro.fm is an employee-owned social purpose corporation that shares profits from your audiobook purchases with your chosen bookstore, giving you the power to keep money within your local economy. It’s also a great alternative to Audible, which is an audiobook platform owned by Amazon. If you would like to gift me an audiobook from my wishlist to support me the link is here: https://libro.fm/wishlist/1228430 Bookshop.org Bookshop.org wo...
Nov 15, 2024•10 min•Season 5Ep. 1
Books Mentioned: Everything for Everyone: A History of the New York Commune 2052-2072 by Eman Abdelhadi , M.E. O'Brien Coming Home by Brittney Griner Triple Sec by TJ Alexander Babel by RF Kuang Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee Libro.fm Libro.fm is an employee-owned social purpose corporation that shares profits from your audiobook purchases with your chosen bookstore, giving you the power to keep money within your local economy. It’s also a great alternative to Audible, which is an audiobook platfor...
Sep 13, 2024•25 min
Books Mentioned: A Little Kissing Between Friends by Chencia C. Higgins Womb City by Tlotlo Tsamaase Second Night Stand by Fay Stetz-Waters and Karelia Stetz Waters Your Driver is Waiting by Priya Guns Show Notes: Libro.fm Libro.fm is an employee-owned social purpose corporation that shares profits from your audiobook purchases with your chosen bookstore, giving you the power to keep money within your local economy. It’s also a great alternative to Audible, which is an audiobook platform owned b...
Sep 06, 2024•23 min
Books mentioned: Ruinous Love Series by Brynne Weaver 1. Butcher and Blackbird 2. Leather and Lark 3. Scythe and Sparrow Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll Libro.fm Libro.fm is an employee-owned social purpose corporation that shares profits from your audiobook purchases with your chosen bookstore, giving you the power to keep money within your local economy. It’s also a great alternative to Audible, which is an audiobook platform owned by Amazon. If you would like to gift me an audiobook from ...
Jul 05, 2024•20 min•Season 4Ep. 20
Jun 21, 2024•50 min•Season 4Ep. 19
Jun 14, 2024•39 min•Season 4Ep. 18
Books Mentioned In This Episode: Chain-Gang All-Stars Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah The Reformatory Tananarive Due All the Sinners Bleed S.A. Cosby Are Prisons Obsolete? Angela Y. Davis Libro.fm Libro.fm is an employee-owned social purpose corporation that shares profits from your audiobook purchases with your chosen bookstore, giving you the power to keep money within your local economy. It’s also a great alternative to Audible, which is an audiobook platform owned by Amazon. If you would like to gi...
Apr 12, 2024•22 min•Season 4Ep. 17
Books mentioned in this episode: Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse Brontez Purnell Family Meal Bryan Washington You, Again Kate Goldbeck Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls Kai Cheng Thom Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Instagram: @thelitbaebookshop Libro.fm Libro.fm is an employee-owned social purpose corporation that shares profits from your audiobook purchases with your chosen bookstore, giving you the power to keep mone...
Apr 05, 2024•21 min•Season 4Ep. 12
"A riot is the language of the unheard" - Martin Luther King Jr. Books mentioned in this episode: Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast is ME by Jamison Shea Blood Debts by Terry J. Benton-Walker The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson Booktube Videos: Readers & authors— your silence on Palestine speaks volumes Palestinian book recommendations (fiction, romance, plays/poetry) imuRgency...
Feb 16, 2024•33 min•Season 4Ep. 15
If you are into social media, you can find the podcast @litbaepod on Instagram, TikTok, Tumblr, and Youtube. If you aren’t into social media, that’s fabulous! You can follow me on whatever platform you listen to this show on and it’ll notify when I have released a new episode. I do not have a set episode release schedule. The best way to support the podcast is by listening, so thank you for your consideration. Libro.fm Libro.fm is an employee-owned social purpose corporation that shares profits ...
Feb 09, 2024•43 min•Season 4Ep. 14
Books mentioned in this episode: Bellies by Nicola Dinan Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Them Flamer by Mike Curato Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter The Tea Dragon Festival by K. Oneill The Tea Dragon Tapestry by K. O’neill That Time I got Drunk and Saved a Demon by Kimberly Lemming Podcasts: Palestine pt. 3: Settler Colonialism and medical Apartheid with Rupa Maria and Jess Ghannam Palestine pt. 4: False Solutions and Paths of Resistance with ...
Feb 02, 2024•30 min•Season 4Ep. 13
What am I leaving in 2023 and keeping in 2024 and beyond? If you are into social media, you can find the podcast @litbaepod on Instagram, TikTok, Tumblr, and Youtube. If you aren’t into social media, that’s fabulous! You can follow me on whatever platform you listen to this show on and it’ll notify when I have released a new episode. I do not have a set episode release schedule. The best way to support the podcast is by listening, so thank you for your consideration. I accept love offerings as w...
Jan 26, 2024•26 min•Season 4Ep. 12
In this episode I review my year of reading with y'all. If you are into social media, you can find the podcast @litbaepod on Instagram, TikTok, Tumblr, and Youtube. If you aren’t into social media, that’s fabulous! You can follow me on whatever platform you listen to this show on and it’ll notify when I have released a new episode. I do not have a set episode release schedule. The best way to support the podcast is by listening, so thank you for your consideration. Libro.fm Libro.fm is an employ...
Jan 19, 2024•12 min•Season 4Ep. 11
Books mentioned in this episode: Black Girl, Call Home - Jasmine Mans Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks The Sugar Jar: Create Boundaries, Embrace Self-Healing, and Enjoy the Sweet Things in Life by Yasmine Cheyenne Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto - Tricia Hersey Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture - Sherronda J. Brown Ple...
Jan 12, 2024•23 min•Season 4Ep. 10
Books Mentioned in the Episode: The Blood Gift N.E. Davenport Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas Yellowface by R.F. Kuang Before I let Go by Kennedy Ryan The World We Make by N.K. Jemisin Love and Other Natural Disasters by Misa Sugiura Blacke Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson Instagram @litbaepod - to see when new episodes are out - Also follow the podcast on wherever you listen to it so that you'll get notified of new episodes because I do not have a regular schedule for dropping new episodes To r...
Jan 05, 2024•25 min•Season 4Ep. 9
Books mentioned in this episode: Enlightened Transsexual Comix by Sam Szabo Transitions: A Mother's Journey by Élodie Durand The Out Side: Trans & Nonbinary Comics by The Kao , Min Christensen , David Daneman Us by Sara Soler The Tea Dragon Society The Tea Dragon Society #1 by K. O'Neill Pageboy by Elliot Page Film: Transhood (HBO) Tv Show: We're Here (HBO) Instagram @litbaepod - to see when new episodes are out - Also follow the podcast on wherever you listen to it so that you'll get notifi...
Dec 29, 2023•22 min•Season 4Ep. 8
Books mentioned in this episode Love and Other Natural Disasters by Misa Saigura Tokyo Dreaming by Emiko Jean Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis The Woman in Me - Britney Spears (Memoir) Rest is Resistance by Tricia Hersey The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks Youtube: The Reason(s) Why Influencers Don't Get Political Evelyn From The Internets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPj4RYoO2KQ Perpetual Pages November Wrap-Up || 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Dec 22, 2023•19 min•Season 4Ep. 7
Books mentioned in this episode: Kiss and Spell by Celestine Martin The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker Everything is Not Enough by Lola Akinmade Akerstrom YOUTUBE + PODCAST RECS: Viola Davis on Hot Ones - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzKZNM2Ir8A Andre 3000 talks about his new album and life after Outkast - GQ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDGmSCXoSRs A Black Women’s History of Hoodoo, Conjure, & Witchcraft - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJuxww4DgRY&t=1344s the gender wars, ar...
Dec 01, 2023•38 min•Season 4Ep. 6
Books mentioned in this episode: Oathbound by Tracy Deonn available for purchase in early 2025! Instagram @litbaepod - to see when new episodes are out - Also follow the podcast on wherever you listen to it so that you'll get notified of new episodes because I do not have a regular schedule for dropping new episodes To read books for free you can use the libby app - Check out books on your phone or tablet from the library! If you are trying to resist Amazon then I highly recommend Libro.FM becau...
Nov 24, 2023•22 min•Season 4Ep. 5
