the love and respect that i have for the brilliant @yahdon and @literaryswagbookclub is huge 💟📚💟📚💟 and they have chosen my SHINE BRIGHT: A VERY PERSONAL HISTORY OF BLACK WOMEN IN POP as their seventh anniversary book 🫶🏽🙌🏽🙏🏽🫶🏽🙌🏽 black and poc book clubs are so amazing — they are vital for that awesome reading fellowship we get at book club meetings 💟 they also provide NECESSARY visibility for authors from marginalized spaces writing about purposely forgotten lives and worlds, and creating novels, telling stories, and making poetry that gives us back to ourselves 🔆 thank you YAHDON and thank you to all the book clubs who HAVE experienced and supported SHINE BRIGHT 🙏🏽 #blackauthors #womenwriters #blackgirlswrite