6 - James Baldwin Little Queer Library

Content Warnings: abortion, death, homophobia, racism

Happy Black History month continued! Today, we are talking about Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, some of the themes of the book, and how Baldwin's life paralleled the fiction he created!

Books Mentioned:
Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin
Comics for Choice: Whit Taylor, Hazel Newlevant, Ø.K. Fox
Burgers in Blackface: Anti-Black Restaurants Then and Now (2019)
Marbles, Ellen Forney
Outlaw Marriages, Rodger Streitmatter
Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from 1890's to Present (2011), Robin R. Means Coleman
The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle
Through the Woods, Emily Carroll
Mouthful of Birds, Samanta Schweblin
Bones of the Coast, Cloudscape Anthology

Peek at Next Week: The Deep by Rivers Solomon

Comics for Choice (link: [http://comicsforchoice.com/](http://comicsforchoice.com/))
Victor LaValle's website: [http://www.victorlavalle.com](http://www.victorlavalle.com/)

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