With Love From Harlem by ReShonda Tate brings Hazel Scott to life. As a therapist using narrative, Hazel’s brilliance, her resolve to not lose herself in Adam Clayton Powell’s shadow, her friendships, her art 😮‍💨every page is a reminder that reclaiming yourself is its own revolution. Coming Jan 27!

Cynthia Erivo’s Simply More: A Book for Anyone Who Has Been Told They’re Too Much is the kind of memoir that reminds you why self-belief is 🔑 She shares her backstory as a Black British queer woman from South London and the tenacity it took for her to follow her dreams despite the haters.

Meet Medusa before the myth fixes her in place. Young Meddy shines as a curious, brave, protagonist whose feminist lens sharpens with every betrayal, revelation, and act of courage. This is Medusa reimagined with tenderness and power. She’s a girl becoming her own story and I love that for her 🐍

Curtice invites us to become “story doulas,” tending to one another’s truths with care, witnessing, and kinship. She reminds us that some stories nourish connection… and some keep us stuck. Reflection for you: Which stories in your life feel ready to grow… and which might you be ready to release?

just finished The Seven Daughters of Dupree by Nikesha Williams (pub date: Jan 27) and I don’t think I’ve ever read a multigenerational story with intersecting timelines that I didn’t have to create a family tree for not once. This book shows why the bonds between Black women are so deeply spiritual

It’s my stop on the #PRHeritageMonthBookstaTour and I’m highlighting Lily Anderson, a queer YA author of Afro-Puerto Rican descent! Anderson has 8 books & contributed to 3 anthologies, all w/ diverse characters. #PRHeritageMonth #Booksky #LatineBooksky #LatinxBooksky

Rest in power, Alice Wong. 🕊️ The writer and visionary founder of the Disability Visibility Project has transitioned. A communicator and a warrior who carved out space where none existed and insisted on a world where disabled people could tell their own stories, unapologetically and unfiltered.

Rumspringa Books is run by a fellow Smith SSW alum (and fellow Springfield transplant!) and getting to know Kate today was such a gift. Sandwiched next to the delicious Nosh Café & Restaurant, the vibes are immaculate, warm, welcoming, and full of bookish magic. Of course I left with a book!🥰

📖 Rec: Flesh & Spirit by Felipe Luciano, former Chairman of the Young Lords Party, poet, activist, and one of the key voices who helped transform El Barrio in the late 60s and 70s. YL were a revolutionary Puerto Rican organization that was modeled after the Black Panther Party. Happy PR Heritage Mo

Today on World Kindness Day, my heart is full. I want to extend my deepest gratitude to Kristina Mänd-Lakhiani, founder of the Mindvalley Book Club, for such a thoughtful and generous conversation this morning. Here’s to kindness: in our stories, in our communities, and life!

I’m happy to share that Bibliotherapy in the Bronx has been selected as Book of the Week by MindValley Bookclub 🥰🙌🏾 Thank you! Join me this Thursday, November 13th at 10 AM EST for a live book talk with the incredible Kristina Mänd-Lakhiani! 🔗 Tune in live: riverside.fm/studio/krist...

Through memoir, social science, and storytelling, KIN invites us to see friendship, caregiving, and collective living as revolutionary acts of love. ✨ One of my favorite quotes: “It is possible to create a community where we reflexively turn to our closest people, not away from them.” #booksky

“It’s within the broader erasure of women’s complex lives that economic anxiety tied to masculinity is treated as a serious, rational political issue, while the material conditions that shape women’s lives—access to abortion, SNAP, Medicare, Medicaid—are relegated to the category of ‘social issues’”

Congratulations to my sis on Root Warriors and Hoodoo Saints. This work is an act of remembrance and resistance. Mawiyah honors the resilience, and ancestral wisdom that sustained Black and Brown communities for generations while bringing to life the stories of Hoodoo Saints with deep reverence.

Had the best friend date yesterday at Hardwick Vineyard and Winery 🥰 🍷 Nothing rejuvenates me more than time with my girls!

Two sisters navigating their fathers advancing Alzheimer’s and the novel is written so beautifully 🥹😮‍💨 Shoutout to Macmillan Audio for the ALC (pub date 12/2). This is fiction written to help us cope with real life hurdles and I’m loving this one.

Our community of professionals using Bibliotherapy in practice is so dope! You should join us! Gain access to years’ worth of content, insights, interventions and book lists for your practice. CR: The Fantasies of Future Things by Doug Jones 🥹 Subscribe: literapynyc.podia.com/literapy-nyc...

There’s something special about a story with a detour that ends with belonging. In The Forget-Me-Not Library Juliet’s road trip lands her in a small Alabama town where books hold memories and healing comes through unexpected connections. Juliet is running from her grief until she’s can’t anymore🥹

This powerful and necessary biography restores the legacy of Audley Moore: an influential yet too often overlooked figure in the Black radical tradition. As someone who identifies as both African American and Puerto Rican, I especially loved reading about Moore’s solidarity with Puerto Rico!

Happy Book Birthday to Black-Owned by Char Adams! As someone who finds home in bookstores, I love seeing this history continue to get its flowers. Black-Owned reminds us that Black bookstores have always been more than places to buy books. Black bookstores are sacred community hubs.

This month in our free book club, Readers Who Run with the Wolves, we’re reading The Fantasies of Future Things by Doug Jones. This novel is a tender, evocative story about love, grief, and the courage it takes to reimagine your own narrative. Join us on fable: fable.co/club/readers...

Sisters, this is your reminder to schedule your annual Pap smear and mammogram. It took me 5 years since the medical trauma of birthing a baby during 2020 but I’m back to taking my own care seriously 💪🏽 Go book those appointments, ya’ll! We need you WELL. 🫶🏽

Six months of Bibliotherapy in the Bronx 🙏🏽 Thank you for reading, sharing, and believing in the healing power of story with me! Here’s to community, culture, and gratitude as we head into Puerto Rican Heritage Month 🇵🇷💛 Grab your copy today: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Biblio...

Nah, Amber did her thing with The Leaving Room. Honoring children. Amplifying choice. Holding space for the grief journey(s) we all encounter with memory as a portal back to self. This YA novel in verse is so beautiful and tender. Gonna think about this one for a min.

The Man of Many Fathers is out today! I love how this book shows the impact you can make on a young person’s life that lasts for their lifetime. Roy lost his Dad at a young age and recollects all the mentor/father figures who came into his life for a reason or a season and taught valuable lessons.

I really feel like we all should get a standing ovation everytime we make it through another day. Life be LIFEING. 🫠

My beautiful and talented sister released her first mixtape today and it’s everything 💃🏽 show her some love ya’ll! m.youtube.com/playlist?list

People say they don’t want to “get political” but what they really mean is “I don’t want to affect my pockets.”

Julia Song is Undateable (pub date 10/28) by Susan Lee is such a funny, charming take on the stress of modern dating AND I am enjoying learning so much about Korean culture. I spent my entire morning going down a rabbit hole on the history of why white rice is preferred over brown rice. 📚 🎧

Buy the suit. Invest in what makes you feel confident. We spend so much time preparing for workshops, classes, and presentations so why not show up feeling as powerful as the work we do? Here’s your reminder: you deserve to look as good as your purpose feels.

Happy book birthday to two I’ve been waiting for all year: Writing, Creativity, and Soul by Sue Monk Kidd & Letter from Japan by Marie Kondo. Sue reminds us, “Writing has a private function that serves our personal wholeness, and a public function that serves the wholeness of others.” I agree🥰🙌🏾

The Black Romance podcast is essential listening for readers, writers, & fans of Black Romance novels. Many of our favorites have been featured on it, which is building a research archive of the Black Romance genre. ✍🏾📚💕 blackromancepodcast.libsyn.com #Romancelandia #RomanceBookSky #BlackBookSky

My Mom just reminded me of the little red wagon I used to take on our library trips when I was little 🥹 This is so special because she was a teen Mom, my abuela raised me while she went to school, and now beautiful memories are flooding back of the time we’d spend together in the stacks. Good times

Cuando me enteré que mi próxima entrevista sería completamente en español, I needed a little confidence boost so I listened to Terapia Literaria by Valentina Trava and Maura Gómez. This book reminded me that reading heals. As Guillermo Arriaga says, “Este libro es para ti, para mí, para todos.”

Grateful to be recognized as one of the Influential Women featured on influentialwomen.com. Their mission is to create a platform where women from all walks of life can connect, share, and inspire through storytelling and creative expression resonating deeply with my purpose and work. Thank you!☺️

I was 15 when Voodoo dropped and D’Angelo changed everything I thought music could be. Today, I’m holding both grief and gratitude for the artist who gave us sound as ceremony. I’m revisiting D’Angelo’s Voodoo (33⅓, 144) by Faith A. Pennick ( bloomsburypublishing ) Rest in sound, D’Angelo. 🎙️🖤

Rest in peace, Diane Keaton. Thank you for the art, the laughter, and the lessons. 🤍 📖 Let’s Just Say It Wasn’t Pretty remains one of my favorite reads — a love letter to imperfection, aging, and grace.

RiseUp Springfield today 💛📚 Came in the night before to set up and left with my heart so full. I sold books, gave away free ones (thank you Penguin Young Readers!), and met the most inspiring educators, readers, and healers. Grateful for every conversation, every hug, every “I needed this.” 💜

If you’re a therapist licensed in the state of New York and you’ve authored a book on social work you can get 5 CEUs. You’re welcome ☺️📚🙌🏾

Nah. The Scammer by Tiffany D. Jackson is a masterclass in psychological control for young readers! I’m hooked and I’m shook! #booksky

forgot to post on Poetry Day! I was busy reading Rickey Laurentiis’s Death of the First Idea (a lush, shape-shifting meditation on what it costs—and gives—to remake a life)! poems that reinvent the lyric to tell the truth of a trans, Black self—ferocious, vulnerable, and lit with New Orleans light.

Two people let me know that they can no longer join our walking tour this Sunday. If you are in NYC and would like to come along, feel free to email me at [email protected] - www.eventbrite.com/e/1629102462... - they are generously offering their slots.

“Kim A. Snyder's powerful film exposes coordinated movements to fuel book bans, the criminalization of librarians and just how it affects youths nationwide.”

Excerpt from Bibliotherapy in the Bronx: In the same vein of self-humanizing, artist Cardi B is known for reminding fans that she’d rather not be placed on anyone’s pedestal: “I’m just a regular, degular, shmegular girl from the Bronx.” Cardi has sociologists and scholars archiving her impact💜📚

Feeling so grateful to the National Library of Medicine’s Network of the National Library of Medicine for recommending Bibliotherapy in the Bronx in honor of #HealthLiteracy Month Literature has the power to heal and transform and I’m thrilled that bibliotherapy is part of this conversation!

✨ Last call, friends ✨ Today’s the last day to grab Bibliotherapy in the Bronx for 20% off on Bookshop! Use code LHM25 at checkout! It’s part of their Latine Heritage Month picks, which feels like such beautiful timing. Snag a copy, support your local indie bookstore, and celebrate w/me! #booksky

Preparing for my workshop on Bibliotherapy for caregivers with RiseUp Springfield and stumbled upon some fascinating history about Martha’s Vineyard and its origins in the Deaf Community. Excited to learn more! www.dhhsc.org/wp-content/u...

✨ Half a year in the wild — Bibliotherapy in the Bronx turns 6 months old today! 📚💛 AND the book is 20% off on Bookshop through Sept 30 for Latine Heritage Month — supporting indie bookstores! Here’s to the first six months and all the chapters still to come. #booksky

Join us today at 12:30pm for a FREE Sobremesa to discuss Bibliotherapy in the Bronx and The Pain We Carry | The Pain We Carry Workbook by Natalie Gutierrez hosted by chicana therapists Cyn and Sofia! This conversation is going to be soul nourishing and we’d love you there! RSVP Here: rb.gy/0jk0o8

“Despite my best efforts, I am loved.” I read this line with a client today and we just sat in it. Sometimes books give us the words we don’t know how to say out loud. Cesar’s story teaches us so much about the will to live despite how hard it feel to go on. Sonora captured that truth beautifully.