Titled in the spirit of feminist bell hooks, this panel of Black women discuss the interior and public lives of Black girlhood, and their new works of poetry, film, story, and the many ways they see themselves and come of age. Poet/filmmaker Nia June made her directorial debut with “A Black Girl’s Country” recently acquired by the Baltimore Museum of Art as a part of their permanent collection. Founder of Well Read Black Girl’s Glory Edim presents her newly released work, On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library, which in its starred review Kirkus Review states is “an expansive, decades-spanning view of Black girlhood.” Breath Better Spent: Living Black Girlhood is the recent work of scholar and award-winning poet DaMaris B. Hill, Ph.D called a narrative in verse that “chooses to celebrate and protect the girl she carries.” Novelist Kai Harris makes her debut with an ode to adolescence, What the Fireflies Knew about family, identity and race. Jamesha Caldwell, co-director of A Revolutionary Summer moderates. Quoting Hill – ”your mouth is a river that won’t lay still”; Nikki G – “Black love is Black wealth,” and hooks – “dreaming ourselves dark and deep,” embodies the spirit of these books, and the treasures that reside in these stories.

LIVE & VIRTUAL @ THE CENTRAL PRATT LIBRARY

The LIVE Panel and Audience Q & A session will also be broadcast on the Enoch Pratt Free Library Facebook page and YouTube page. It can be watched after the broadcast on the library’s Facebook Live. Click here for the Live video library.