Favorite Librarian, the Podcast

This week's episode is inspired by the Instagram account @TheBlackParkRangerExperience . Your Favorite Librarian is country girl at heart and grew up around horses, and explored National Parks and nature centers with her parents.  Along Your Favorite Librarian's pursuit of higher education, National Parks gave Your Favorite a place of peace and hold a special place in her heart. Join You...

In celebration of Women's History Month, join Your Favorite Librarian as she reviews the 2014 memoir written by Lorraine Sade Bakersville, entitled "One Trans Woman's Spiritual Journey." While pursuing her degree in librarianship, Your Favorite Librarian met the author. The experience and interaction left a beautiful impression on Your Favorite Librarian. Baskerville is not onl...

This week, enjoy Episode Fourteen with Your Favorite Librarian as she continues the conversation about "Measure of Authenticity.  This episode is broken into two portions for readers to properly examine and are, also, paired with great titles to support any reader's discovery.  Scars are Beautiful: Unresolved Trauma and Reclaiming Black Beauty Healing Legacies of Trauma and Abuse in the...

Enjoy Your Favorite Librarian's examination of the benefits, usages, and examples of self-love. Specifically, this episode celebrates and explores how Black Women, and the Black community, define and utilize self-love.  In this episode, readers will also explore the following:  Define and Maintaining a Foundation of Love and Support Limits, Boundaries, and Managing Expectations  Self-Discipli...

Happy Black History Month! This week, Your Favorite Librarian reviews authorship and examines who truly contributes to the world of Black Literature. Join the librarian, as she discusses the topic fairly divided into four portions:  Who Contributes to the Black Experience?  Gatekeeping: Preserving and Protecting... or Protect over preserve? Allyship and Holding Space...properly  Who provides credi...

This week, Your Favorite Librarian shares her world with readers.  Follow along for some thrilling updates about Your Librarian, insightful nuggets of wisdom about Librarianship, and great Black Literature suggestions. Your Favorite Librarian shares her world and what fuels her motivation, and evolution. Among the new changes, some things remain the same… ways of recharging, dancing, and specific...

Join Your Favorite Librarian and special quest, Ashley Meadows, for Episode 10: "Eye to Eye: Black Women, Hatred, and the Use of Anger."  This episode is a nod to Audre Lorde and an exploration of the Uses of Anger.  This week's episode reading list include the following: “Sister Outsider” by Audre Lorde “Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women” by E. Patrick Johnson “Bone Bla...

This week, Your Favorite Librarian explores Pro-Blackness and Cancel Culture. This episode examines how Cancel Culture supports some traditional definitions and shapes expressions of Pro-Blackness. Throughout the episode, Your Favorite Librarian also illustrates the cornerstone of Cancel Culture and how gatekeeping, in an act to protect and preserve Black Culture and Excellence may not be the best...

This week, Your Favorite Librarian shares her personal stories navigating and battling anxiety. Before or after checking out Episode 8, check out this uplifting reading list, to guide you along. "Persepolis: The Story of A Childhood" by Marjane Satrapi "You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience" by Tarana Burke and Brene and Brown "...

This week, Your Favorite Librarian defines and examines exactly what Community is and how readers can strengthen their understand on how to contribute to such. Broken up into three major elements: Foundation, Core, and Practice-- join Your Favorite Librarian for a jam-packed episode. This episode is meant to inform readers on how individuality contributes to the foundation of community and persona...

With this episode, Your Favorite Librarian examines how to refine your journey to the highest version of yourself. Before getting started with this episode, check out this awesome reading selections. "The Sisters are Alright: Changing the Broken Narratives of Black Women in America" by Tamara Winfrey Harris "Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit" by Mary-F...

This episode, Your Favorite Librarian explores how readers can recharge and reconnect to with reading. From going "Back to the Basics," the importance of poetry, and examining how the intersectionality of multiple narratives around you also a fulcrum-- providing a balance and wealth of history, information, and insight.  To guide readers with this week's episode, check out these gre...

Join Your Favorite Librarian this episode to explore how reading is an act of self-care, an example of escapism, self-improvement and a great way to explore personal interests and passions. Many of us have heard the phrase "strong reader" or other disparaging remarks that effect our confidence to continue reading later in life. Say less, Your Favorite Librarian has a few pointers and col...

Join Your Favorite Librarian this week as she shares some titles, tools, and insight on how reading is an act of Self Discipline.  Firstly, check out this week's reading list of titles to guide you along your journey. This episode's suggestions include: "Brujas: The Magic and Power of Witches of Color" by Lorraine Monteagut, PhD "The Black Trans Prayer Book" by J Mase...

Join Your Favorite Librarian to explore colorful options of applying what you know after reading great pieces of literature.  From journaling your progress, refining your communication and great collaboration, or ways to reflect-- applying what you know has its benefits. As you evolve, reading will continuously take you to places you may not have imagined. As you open your heart, your mind will op...

Join Your Favorite Librarian for the first episode of her official podcast. Throughout the weeks, explore great pieces of literature, ways to gain greater insight about yourself, apply what you read and explore what you enjoy. This week, Your Favorite Librarian encourages readers to define and explore what they love as the first step to refining your or crafting a love for reading. If you know or...