Hello all! As you hopefully already know, today is Juneteeth, a holiday on which we recognize the official end of slavery in our country. Note that this happened a full two and a half years after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which is shameful, but par for the course.
Today we wanted to recommend some of our favorite Black Bookstagrammers that we think everyone should follow. There are tons of awesome events being hosted to honor Juneteenth over on Instagram, and we’ve highlighted some of them below as well.
Black Bookstagrammers We Love
Both Haley and I have been doing a LOT of listening and learning over the last few weeks/months, and we have been getting so much great information from Bookstagram! We especially love these five Bookstagrammers, and we KNOW this is leaving out a TON of other great content creators. Let us know who you love in the comments!
- @thereadingchemist — One awesome thing that is going on over on Instagram today is #BlackStoriesStack, a hashtag that encourages people to share pictures of their stacks of books written by Black authors. That awesome hashtag is being cohosted by Toya from The Reading Chemist, and we LOVE IT. Check out Toya’s feed for amazing book recommendations and pictures that will make you want to buy all the things.
- @TheStacksPod — We ADORE Traci’s content, both her podcast and Instagram feed and know you will, too. She’s put out TONS of awesome book recommendations over the years, and has especially been doing a lot of labor over the last few months to give amazing book recommendations. We are Patreon subscribers of hers as well, and highly recommend you check out her stuff!
- @melanatedreader — Crystal is a Ph.D. candidate, teacher, and overall amazing bookstagrammer. Her book recs are always on point, and I personally am a huge fan of her content. She actually is a co-host for a readalong of Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi. I had been a bit intimidated by this big book (my attention span for reading since COVID and BLM and EVERYTHING 2020 has had to bring has been basically nothing), but I’m excited to dig in with a bunch of my Insta-faves. It starts today, so check it out!
- @diversespines - Created by Jamise Harper (whose personal Instagram @spinesvines is also excellent), this is an online, Instagram-driven diverse-reads bookclub. They have a diverse reads challenge, monthly book-talks, including live-author visits, and stacks on stacks of book pics that always make me excited to dig in. Check her out!
- @bowtiesandbooks - One of our favorite LGBT Black Bookstagrammers, Jesse posts the most GORGEOUS photos, very often pairing a book pic and review with a freaking gorgeous complementary outfit. I’m such a fan. PLUS! Starting today, they are one of the hosts of a Queer-Black-Authors readathon in honor of Tony McDade and in honor of Pride Month. Haley and I are participating and hope you do, too!
Books to Read
Clearly this is a book blog, so you didn’t think we were going to leave you without books to read, did you?! We have made a few posts on this topic before, so you can start with any of these, or check out any of the above Bookstagrammers for all the recs you could ever want/need! There is an event going on today to post some #BlackStoriesStacks in honor of Juneteenth, so there are just countless recommendations out there.
What About You?
How are you honoring Juneteenth today? Reading anything great? Searching for more awesome content creators to follow? Tell us everything we missed — we can’t wait to hear from you!
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