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📖The Refugee: Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada

Powerful stories that stay with you long after the last page…✨

Comment ‘READ’ to get my Free February Reading List📚

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M🍁M 📖The Refugee: Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada Powerful stories that stay with you long after the last page…✨ Comment ‘READ’ to get my Free February Reading List📚 💁🏽‍♀️ @saiebeauty 💄 @fentybeauty 🎽 @bananarepublic mapleandmelanin nonfiction booksrecs

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International Women’s Day means celebrating the women who made the world a better place by using their voice and expressing their artistry….🌹🪻🌸🌺🌷🌻
No matter the era, no matter the risk, no matter the roadblocks here’s to the women who used their voices then and now so we could shout and sing more freely🫶🏾🤛🏾🔥🔥

Toni Morrison | Sula

Zora Neale Hurston |Their Eyes Were Watching God

Make Me Rain | Nikki Giovanni

The Selected Works of Audre Lorde | Audre Lord

Black Pearls | Daphne Duval Harrison

The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou | Maya Angelou

Just As I Am | Cicely Tyson

all about love | bell hooks

#books #internationalwomensday #blackwomen

Black History Month was such a huge success for me in terms of content creation. I actually had something completely different planned for you next… and then I picked up this book and everything changed.❤️‍🩹

I read the first 20 pages right there in the store and immediately knew I had to share it.

A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides by Gisèle Pelicot is powerful, raw, and deeply human. This is her story told in her own voice and her honesty and bravery are incredible.
Trust me on this one: you need to pick up this book. 📚

I’ll check back in at the end of March so we can talk about it together and hear what you thought. More soon.

You can find the book linked in my LTK (in my bio) if you want to read along.☺️

Thank you, Gisèle, for your courage and for sharing your story. It truly is a hymn to life. ✨

@giselepelicotofficiel
@penguinrandomhouse

#book #reading #women

Maple Reads🍁🇨🇦
📖 Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
🖊️ Sabrina Strings
This book really stayed with me. It breaks down how anti-Black racism shaped the beauty standards we still live with today and how fatphobia is deeply tied to that history.
I’ve always known I was a baddie, but reading this? It just confirmed it. It made me love myself even more as a Black woman and let go of standards that were never made for us in the first place.
Honestly, it’s an incredible historical read for everyone. Once you understand where beauty standards actually come from, you realize they don’t even hold the power we think😎
🎽 @adidas
💄 @fentybeauty
👂🏽 @aldo_shoes

📚✨#mapleandmelanin #readblack #bookrec

Two books. Two journeys. 🍁🇨🇦

Half-Blood Blues (My Fav!) and Washington Black explore Black identity, freedom, and survival across time and borders.

Comment READ to get my February Reading List 📚

📖Half Blood Blues and Washington Black
🖊️ Esi Edugyan

💃🏽@bananarepublic
💁🏽‍♀️ @saiebeauty
💄 @fentybeauty
👂🏽 @aldo_shoes

📚✨#mapleandmelanin #canadianhistory #bookrec

She’s one to watch folks. Frying Plantain by Zalika Reid Benta is a gift to us all this young Canadian Author is going places. 🍁

📖Frying Plantain
🖊️Zalika Reid Benta

💃🏽 @bananarepublic
💁🏽‍♀️ @saiebeauty
💄 @fentybeauty
👂🏽 @aldo_shoes

📚✨#mapleandmelanin #canadianhistory #bookrec

This is exactly why I’m posting one Black Canadian woman every single day in February. Because their courage changed history!!

Mary Ann Shadds actions saved a young boy from being sold back into slavery. These stories aren’t just Black history, they’re our Canadian history, and every one of us should know it, feel it, and be proud of it. 🍁🇨🇦🔥🔥

❤️SAVE THIS.
🔁SHARE THIS.

#mapleandmelanin #chatham #canadian

Well done @loccitane
Every time I wear, this people are like “Who smells so good?” When does it come back again asking for a friend….😍

#loccitane #blackgirlmagic #fragrance #canadian #beauty #fyp #foryoupage #smellgood

Maple 🍁Melanin
Research

📚📚When research and downtime meet sometimes you get the most magical gift from the universe…. Thank you ladies😊😍

Follow @themapleandmelanin for more stories of remarkable black Canadian women
you won’t wanna miss✨✨✨

#blackgirlmagic #theuniverse #canadian #fyp #blackhistory #history

People: I don’t know where to start learning about Black history….🧐
Me: Start here⬇️⬇️

📖 Black England —>See the roots 🪴
📖 The 1619 Project —>Fill in the gap and learn the in-depth past of American history🧠
📖 Caste —>Understand the system without losing the humanity.❤️

Not Canadian but essential if you want to finally see Black 🇨🇦women’s stories in context and experience, beautiful undeniable writing 🌺💐🌸

Black England by Gretchen Gerzina
1619 Project by @nikolehannahjones
Caste by @isabelwilkerson

Link to all books here
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https://liketk.it/5EP4C

#reading #fyp #books