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📚Biblio | Poetry Therapist ✍️ Author ‘Bibliotherapy in The Bronx’ 📖 🛋️ Diverse, Therapeutic Book Recommendations

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Em Rumble, LICSW @literapynyc.bsky.social · Aug 29

five months today.🥹

it’s labor day weekend & my little one starts kindergarten on Tuesday!

Bibliotherapy in the Bronx was born from my therapy room, community rooms, and library stacks.

thank you for cheering me on while I support other authors and try to consistently champion my own work, too.

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Em Rumble, LICSW @literapynyc.bsky.social · 13h

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.

Em Rumble, LICSW @literapynyc.bsky.social · 2d

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.” 💜

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Em Rumble, LICSW @literapynyc.bsky.social · 3d

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 ☺️📚🙌🏾

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Em Rumble, LICSW @literapynyc.bsky.social · 3d

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

#booksky

Em Rumble, LICSW @literapynyc.bsky.social · 7d

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.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 8d

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.

Black Abolitionists in NYC: A Walking Tour

Join Mariame Kaba on a walking tour about Black Abolitionists in New York City

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Martha Hickson @sassylibrarian.bsky.social · 8d

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

Black Student Says Having More Diverse Books Would've Made Her Feel 'More Comfortable' in Predominately White School

The new documentary 'The Librarians' exposes coordinated movements to fuel book bans, the criminalization of librarians and just how it affects youths nationwide.

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Em Rumble, LICSW @literapynyc.bsky.social · 8d

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💜📚

Em Rumble, LICSW @literapynyc.bsky.social · 9d

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!

Em Rumble, LICSW @literapynyc.bsky.social · 11d

✨ 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

Em Rumble, LICSW @literapynyc.bsky.social · 11d

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!

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Em Rumble, LICSW @literapynyc.bsky.social · 12d

Thank you Grace🥰🫶🏽

Em Rumble, LICSW @literapynyc.bsky.social · 12d

✨ 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

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Em Rumble, LICSW @literapynyc.bsky.social · 13d

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

Em Rumble, LICSW @literapynyc.bsky.social · 14d

“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.

Em Rumble, LICSW @literapynyc.bsky.social · 15d

You just reminded me how much I love this one!

Em Rumble, LICSW @literapynyc.bsky.social · 15d

Bernice McFadden is giving us romance under her real name for the first time 😍✨ Groove + Fever drop Oct 7—NYC summers, steamy love, & a friend group you’ll never forget. Who else is ready? 📚🔥

Thank you Dutton Books and Bernice McFadden for blessing me with gifted copies! Weekend reading is the best

Em Rumble, LICSW @literapynyc.bsky.social · 15d

Today I’m holding grief and gratitude in the same breath. We learned that Assata Shakur has died at 78.

I first read her autobiography when I was sixteen, and it lit something in me.

One stanza from her poetry that has always been medicine for me is this one.

Rest in power, Assata. #Assata

Em Rumble, LICSW @literapynyc.bsky.social · 16d

statements being made lately about autism are reckless and harmful. Recently, Trump linked Tylenol to autism and he’s dead wrong.

I’m sharing this video to keep the conversation rooted where it belongs: in the lived experiences of autistic people and their families, not in fear or misinformation.

Em Rumble, LICSW @literapynyc.bsky.social · 16d

Grateful beyond words 💛✨
The Five of Pentacles reminds me: we don’t walk alone.

My sis Wale stays showing love—sharing my book with the freshest nails 💅🏾📖.

As a mama of two littles, the overwhelm is real, but community keeps me lifted.

Thank you for holding me up. 🌿 #FiveOfPentacles #booksky

Em Rumble, LICSW @literapynyc.bsky.social · 18d

🎉📚 Happy Book Birthday to Truth Is by Hannah V. Sawyerr !

This YA novel-in-verse follows 17-year-old Truth as she navigates pregnancy, abandonment, and the courage it takes to tell your story out loud. It’s raw, timely, and full of heart.

So excited for readers to meet Truth and her journey!

Em Rumble, LICSW @literapynyc.bsky.social · 18d

Many thanks to Janel and Latinx Project NYU for the beautiful feature! The Bronx keeps creating it 💜📚

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‘Bibliotherapy’ and the Healing Power of Books — The Latinx Project at NYU

On a sweltering summer day, the Fordham Road section of the Bronx became a hub for bibliophiles. Highly acclaimed authors, publishing professionals, and book lovers convened at Fordham Plaza—a central...

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Em Rumble, LICSW @literapynyc.bsky.social · 19d

40% off my Pango Bookshop this week to celebrate the New Moon and make sure we are all stocking our libraries up with physical books - IYKYK! #booksky

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Literapy_NYC's Bookstore | Pango Books

Browse books from Literapy_NYC's bookstore on Pango Books. Hi! I’m Em Rumble and I’m the private practice owner of Literapy where as a therapist I specialize in bibliotherapy. I’m always aquiring new,...

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Em Rumble, LICSW @literapynyc.bsky.social · 20d

Notes on my 40th chapter. 🎉

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Becoming Someone I’ve Never Met

Notes on my 40th chapter.

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Em Rumble, LICSW @literapynyc.bsky.social · 25d

Happy Book Bday to Without Fear powerfully centering everyday Black women who turned lived oppression into catalysts for global justice movements.

Celebrating unsung heroines, Blain shows how their courage continues to guide the fight for freedom today both here in the States and abroad📚✊🏾
#booksky