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I'm highlighting some recently released books today on this rainy Friday. Epic Reads is proud of their recent books published celebrating Black! Boy! Joy! and they want to share them with you. Here are three books that are giving us cause to celebrate during this joyfilled campaign: 🙆🏿‍♂️ Early Departures by Justin A. Reynolds 🙆🏿‍♂️ Charming as a Verb by Ben Phillipe 🙆🏿‍♂️ Not so Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles I'm excited to read all of them and share them with others. Black males are portrayed in negative ways in media and it is crucial for us to break the stereotypes and spread stories that show black males in all their glory. Young, black boys need to be able to see themselves represented doing ordinary things and navigating life and finding love their own sense of happiness in the process. If these aren't on your radar, be sure to pick them up sooner rather than later. For more information please visit the landing page so you can learn more about these wonderful books and their fantastic authors. Here is the https://go.epicreads.com/blackboyjoy/. You can also find in it through my bio page. QOTD: What are some other Black! Boy! Joy! stories you read recently? #blacklivesmatter #blackboyjoy #readblackstories #diversestories #readersforequality #epicreads #weneeddiversebooks #bookstagram #earlydepartures #charmingasaverb #notsopureandsimple #readyalit #diversifyyourfeed #YAfiction #yabooks #bookdragon #bookish (at Bushwick) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGa6SkGAx3V/?igshid=kzddlhqds3f8

Latinx Heritage Month starts next week. The observance was born in 1968 when Congress authorized the president to issue an annual proclamation designating National Hispanic Heritage Week. Just two decades later, lawmakers expanded it to a month-long celebration, stretching from Septemeber 15 to October 15. The timing is key. Latinx Heritage Month — like its shorter precursor — always starts on September 15, a historically significant day that marks the anniversary of independence of five Latin American countries: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. The designated period is also a nod to those from Mexico and Chile, which celebrate their independence on Sept. 16 and Sept. 18, respectively. (Census Bureau) Today I'm featuring 3 of my favorite Latinx reads. All 3 are LGBTQIA reads and 2 are also Caribbean reads. * Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Diaz *Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera *The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio QOTD: What Latinx reads will you be reading to celebrate? #LatinxHeritageMonth #Latinxreads #LGBTQIAbooks #readcaribbean #readersforequality #dignidadliteraria #celebratelatinxauthors #bookdragon #readlatinxculture #pridebooks #decolonizeyourshelves #bookishgal #diversereader #booksarelife #books #booksandplants #bookstack #read #bookstagram #noshelfcontrol #bookishsocks #bookishtees #biblio (at Bushwick) https://www.instagram.com/p/CE7gCseADFN/?igshid=1fx70wpus5vox

Looking forward to this month's selection for @latinxreadtoo book club. SYNOPSIS: First-generation American LatinX Liliana Cruz does what it takes to fit in at her new nearly all-white school. But when family secrets spill out and racism at school ramps up, she must decide what she believes in and take a stand. Fifteen-year-old Liliana is fine, thank you very much. It’s fine that her best friend, Jade, is all caught up in her new boyfriend lately. It’s fine that her inner-city high school is disorganized and underfunded. It’s fine that her father took off again—okay, maybe that isn’t fine, but what is Liliana supposed to do? She’s fifteen! Being left with her increasingly crazy mom? Fine. Her heathen little brothers? Fine, fine, fine. But it turns out Dad did leave one thing behind besides her crazy family. Before he left, he signed Liliana up for a school desegregation program called METCO. And she’s been accepted. Being accepted into METCO, however, isn’t the same as being accepted at her new school. In her old school, Liliana—half-Guatemalan and half-Salvadorian—was part of the majority where almost everyone was a person of color. But now at Westburg, where almost everyone is white, the struggles of being a minority are unavoidable. It becomes clear that the only way to survive is to lighten up—whiten up. And if Dad signed her up for this program, he wouldn’t have just wanted Liliana to survive, he would have wanted her to thrive. So what if Liliana is now going by Lili? So what if she’s acting like she thinks she’s better than her old friends? It’s not a big deal. It’s fine. But then she discovers the gutting truth about her father: He’s not on one of his side trips. And it isn’t that he doesn’t want to come home…he can’t. He’s undocumented and he’s been deported back to Guatemala. Soon, nothing is fine, and Lili has to make a choice: She’s done trying to make her white classmates and teachers feel more comfortable. Done changing who she is, denying her culture and where she came from. They want to know where she’s from, what she’s about? Liliana is ready to tell them. #readlatinxbooks #latinxreadtoo #ownvoices #readersforequality #bookstagram #bookish (at Middle Village) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEp8r_Tg3Sg/?igshid=t7vvyif98rv2

Some books just take your breath away! They make you want to stop and bask in their beauty. QOTD: What book leaves you breathless? ***SYNOPSIS (GOODREADS): Dear Martin meets Just Mercy in this unflinching yet uplifting YA novel that explores the racist injustices in the American justice system. Every week, seventeen-year-old Tracy Beaumont writes letters to Innocence X, asking the organization to help her father, an innocent Black man on death row. After seven years, Tracy is running out of time—her dad has only 267 days left. Then the unthinkable happens. The police arrive in the night, and Tracy’s older brother, Jamal, goes from being a bright, promising track star to a “thug” on the run, accused of killing a white girl. Determined to save her brother, Tracy investigates what really happened between Jamal and Angela down at the Pike. But will Tracy and her family survive the uncovering of the skeletons of their Texas town’s racist history that still haunt the present? Fans of Nic Stone and Jason Reynolds won’t want to miss this provocative and gripping debut. #readblackstories #blacklivesmatter #weneeddiversebooks #ownvoices #readersforequality #bookstagram #decolonizeyourshelf #bookdragon #booksandsunsets #booksonhighline #readbooksoutside #booksarelife #bibliophile #booklover #bookaddict #bookcoverlove #readgoodbooks #sunshine #highline #bookphoto #amplifymelanatedvoices #booklove #booksbooksbooks #bookishthings #getunderlined #readYAbooks #yalit (at The High Line) https://www.instagram.com/p/CD2UwZlAHP8/?igshid=eu9dt7l7mlr9

Hey book lovers! Today is Book Lovers Day. What book did you fall in love with prior to being on bookstagram that you wished everyone read? For me that book was Kindred by Octavia Butler. What’s yours? #LovedBeforeBookstagram #ReadersForEquality @ReadersForEquality #blackbookstagram #maddblackreads #blackbibliophile #wellreadblackgirl #blackreaders #moodreadersclub #goodreads #booklove #booksofinstagram #bookstagram #becauseofblackreaders #booknerdigan #avidreader #fortheloveofreading #blackgirlsread #lovetoread #blackwomenread #blackandbookish #bookreview #blackbookblogger #becauseofreading https://www.instagram.com/p/CDr70HoAV0Z/?igshid=kwkpzhnz7e85

Joining @never_without_a_book, @parisperusing , and #readersforequality and posting a selection of #blackpridebooks. I guarantee that each one of these books will greatly enrich your life. 🌈❤️ ~ (Special thanks to @simeonacooper for humouring me and helping me out with this photo 😉) https://www.instagram.com/p/CB5sUUTqzoM/?igshid=17h75lak5uqil

Thank you @parisperusing for this image and the following letter. I completely agree and back this and hope that we can see real change in publishing. #readersforequality - Dear Publishers, ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ We’ve seen your statements. We’ve seen you state you want to “do better.” So this is what we’re asking from you.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ As part of Readers for Equality, we’ve put together four actionable items you can take to uplift the voices of the many literary content creators of color. We are asking for transparency. We are asking for compensation. We are asking for a seat at the table.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ To everyone else in the literary world, if you stand with us, please help by sharing this graphic in your own feed and in your stories. Together we can effect change. ❤️❤️❤️ https://www.instagram.com/p/CBUP84pgnyf/?igshid=1b030pmfn5ara

Dear publishers, We've seen your statements. We've seen you state you want to "do better". So this is what we're asking for you. As part of Readers for Equality, we've put together 4 actionable items you can take to uplift the voices of the many literary content creators of color. We are asking for transparency. We are asking for compensation. We are asking for a seat at the table. To everyone else in the literary world, if you stand with us, please help by sharing this graphic in your own feed and in your stories and tag the big 5 publishers. Together we can affect change. Graphic by: @parisperusing #ReadersForEquality https://www.instagram.com/p/CBTL0GSADQG/?igshid=7ks2pq9fh7uq