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Gabby AKA Bookish AfroLatina

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Just a bisexual & disabled, Black Latina who loves reading & talking about books. Librarian, Historian, Influencer, Author 🇵🇷🇩🇴🇺🇸 Special interest: Black & Latine books. http://beacons.ai/bookish_afrolatina/

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Gabby AKA Bookish AfroLatina @bookish-afrolatina.bsky.social · May 15

What's going on at The Library of Congress?
A thread 🧵

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Gabby AKA Bookish AfroLatina @bookish-afrolatina.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks to @bookshop.org and @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social, I am hosting a $50 giftcard giveaway for #BannedBooksWeek on IG! Click on the link below to watch my reel and enter:
www.instagram.com/reel/DPhFbsE...

#Booksky #BannedBooks #BlackBooksky #LatinxBooksky #BookGiveaway #FightBookBans

A brown-skinned woman with dark braids, white glasses, and a pastel rainbow cardigan holds a hardcover copy of The Golden Boy's Guide to Bipolar by Sonora Reyes.

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Gabby AKA Bookish AfroLatina @bookish-afrolatina.bsky.social · 2d

Get out there and read/buy banned books while you can.
#BannedBooksWeek #Censorship #Booksky

Gabby AKA Bookish AfroLatina @bookish-afrolatina.bsky.social · 2d

I’m not surprised that this book & its author have faced censorship because the U.S. has been violent towards queer & trans people since its founding. I’m frustrated because The Diablo’s Curse has fantastic representation, philosophical convos, & historical value. (Plus pirates!) #ReadBannedBooks

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Gabby AKA Bookish AfroLatina @bookish-afrolatina.bsky.social · 2d

In order to regain his humanity, Dami has to void every deal they've ever made but it turns out that their curse is the only thing keeping Silas alive. Their mission to extinguish the curse on Sila’s family leads these 2 on an adventure to an mystical island that is definitely trying to kill them. 🧵

Gabby AKA Bookish AfroLatina @bookish-afrolatina.bsky.social · 2d

The Diablo’s Curse by Gabe Cole Novoa is a hist. fantasy novel about a demon named Dami who is scheming to become human once more & a cute boy named Silas who is cursed to die young. 🧵
#BannedBooks #Censorship #LatineHeritageMonth

Gabby AKA Bookish AfroLatina @bookish-afrolatina.bsky.social · 2d

This is an incredibly important story to the D.R. as well as the U.S. because many Dominicans, like the author’s family & my own, fled to places like NYC for refuge. Now, we are under yet another authoritarian regime that seeks to limit our access to stories of resistance like this. 🧵 #BannedBooks

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Gabby AKA Bookish AfroLatina @bookish-afrolatina.bsky.social · 2d

In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez is a hist. fiction novel based on the lives of the Mirabal sisters aka Las Mariposas. 3 of the 4 sisters were assassinated on Trujillo's orders for their underground efforts to topple his regime in the D.R. in 1960. 🧵 #bannedbooks #censorship #booksky

Gabby AKA Bookish AfroLatina @bookish-afrolatina.bsky.social · 2d

You can find info on which books have been banned or challenged and where through PEN America’s Banned Books Index.
pen.org/pen-america-...
#BannedBooks #Booksky #News #Censorship

PEN America Book Ban Index Data

Book bans are a scourge of censorship across the country. Check for yourself using PEN America's Book Ban Indexes that have amassed this information since 2021.

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Gabby AKA Bookish AfroLatina @bookish-afrolatina.bsky.social · 2d

It's #BannedBookWeek! Here are a couple of books I'd like to highlight: In the time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez and The Diablo's Curse by Gabe Cole Novoa. 🧵
#BannedBooks #LatineHeritageMonth #LatinxHeritageMonth #Booksky #LatinxBooksky #Censorship

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Gabby AKA Bookish AfroLatina @bookish-afrolatina.bsky.social · 5d

Today is my stop on the #LHMBookstaTour 🥰
Check out my post on IG where I highlight why reading books by and about Puerto Rican and Dominican authors is important to me:
www.instagram.com/p/DPWcgboEXA...
#LatineHeritageMonth #Booksky #LHM #LatineBooksky #LatinxHeritageMonth #HispanicHeritageMonth

Bookish AfroLatina’s LHM Tour Stop. Gabby smiles with a green shirt on and dark braids. A dark green and white arch surrounds her with two bunches of banana leaves on the bottom corners. A blurred colorful bookshelf stands in the background.

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Gabby AKA Bookish AfroLatina @bookish-afrolatina.bsky.social · 5d

This is wonderful!!!
#booksky #news #readingrainbow

Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 7d

I am so happy for all of us that Reading Rainbow is returning! Friends, YOU all did this! 😂🤣

We're flying twice as high, butterflies in the sky! 🦋🌌

Make sure to follow the rainbow! 📚🌈

www.readingrainbow.org

A smiling Mychal in outer space shirt with hands clasped. Text on screen reads, “In the meantime, make sure to follow the rainbow!”

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Gabby AKA Bookish AfroLatina @bookish-afrolatina.bsky.social · 10d

The reasons I listed are just a few of the many. It's not strictly practical to have anyone only speak 1 language, especially in government, academia, & business. All of those fields include communicating with international officials, stakeholders, & students. Being bilingual or a polyglot is a plus

Gabby AKA Bookish AfroLatina @bookish-afrolatina.bsky.social · 11d

Our people end up being policed by our nations & by each other. All of which distracts us from uniting against white supremacy & colonialism. I hope y’all will read the transcript and/or my edited version in the book Latinas: Gender, Race & Class—Struggles in 21st Century USA, Vol. 2
#LHM #Booksky

text on a ripped piece of paper: Latine Heritage Month; We are NOT a monolith! A cut out of an article from up//root: a we here publication with the title: “Latinidad” as Erasure: Words from a Critical Discussion on the Single Narrative of Latinidad. Three red arrows point to the article and the name Gabby Womack is underlined in red. A red book overlaps the article clip. It is Latinas: Gender, Race & Class—Struggles in 21st Century USA, Vol. 2 compiled & edited by Iris Morales and Karina Hurtado-Ocampo. In the background, flags from Latin American countries lay in repetitive tiles.

Gabby AKA Bookish AfroLatina @bookish-afrolatina.bsky.social · 11d

There are many reasons that some folks in Latin America, the Caribbean, & the U.S. who are Latine don’t speak Spanish. They speak an indigenous language to their region(s), they were adopted by non-Spanish speakers, they faced xenophobia in the countries they live in...🧵

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Gabby AKA Bookish AfroLatina @bookish-afrolatina.bsky.social · 11d

Part of that conversation was also about other Latine questioning our Latinidad and frequently having to prove our inclusion in the community. Many of the qualifiers actually just uphold white supremacy and our colonizers. For example, being Black and/or not speaking Spanish. 🧵
#Latinidad

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Gabby AKA Bookish AfroLatina @bookish-afrolatina.bsky.social · 11d

Back in 2021, I was a part of a panel discussion about this topic titled, “Latinidad” as Erasure: Words from a Critical Discussion on the Single Narrative of Latinidad. You can read that here: www.uproot.space/features/lat...
@wehere.bsky.social #LatineHeritageMonth #LHM #HispanicHeritageMonth
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“Latinidad” as Erasure — uproot//zines

The flat, limited narrative lacking in historical understanding and nuance of race and ethnicity that is dominant in the United States extends to those of Latine heritage. Considering this complexity,...

www.uproot.space

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Gabby AKA Bookish AfroLatina @bookish-afrolatina.bsky.social · 11d

For day 13 of the #LHMBookstaChallenge the theme is: We are NOT a monolith. I think this connects w/ a panel discussion I was a part of in 2021 hosted by @wehere.bsky.social & a book my piece was published in called Latinas: Gender, Race & Class—Struggles in 21st Century USA, Vol. 2
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#Booksky

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Gabby AKA Bookish AfroLatina @bookish-afrolatina.bsky.social · 11d

It's so good!!

Gabby AKA Bookish AfroLatina @bookish-afrolatina.bsky.social · 14d

It’s day 10 of the #LHMBookstaChallenge & I’m sharing an new book that I think matches the prompt “¿Que bochinche?” perfectly.

You Should Have Been Nicer To My Mom by Vincent Tirado (Out March 2026)

Read my book review: bookish-afrolatina.binderybooks.com/item/dP7yWDm...

#Booksky #NewBooks

TEXT - Latine Heritage Month; ¿Que bochinche? A brown hand with white-tipped nails holds up a copy of You Should Have Been Nicer To My Mom by Vincent Tirado. Five red arrows sprout from each side of the book pointing to more text: Dominican-American Family; Abundant Drama; Shocking Revelations; A Demon On a Mission; One Violent Night. In the background, rain falls and lightning strikes in the dark.

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Gabby AKA Bookish AfroLatina @bookish-afrolatina.bsky.social · 16d

It’s day 8 of the #LHMBookstaChallenge and the prompt is Mi TBR, Tu TBR. Here’s some of my Latine TBR:
Find the full list here: bookish-afrolatina.binderybooks.com/item/f5trjdW...

#Booksky #LatineBooks #LatinxBooks #LatinxHeritageMonth #Books

Brown and yellow text read: Latine Heritage Month; Mi TBR, Tu TBR. Three rows of eight books sit below the text. The background is a field of sunflowers on a sunny morning.

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Day with Alex @daywithalex.bsky.social · 18d

Lo que le pasó a Hawaii #badbunny #amazonprime

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Day with Alex @daywithalex.bsky.social · 18d

Marc Anthony!?!?!!!! #badbunny #amazonprime

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Gabby AKA Bookish AfroLatina @bookish-afrolatina.bsky.social · 18d

Marc Anthonyyyyyyy

Gabby AKA Bookish AfroLatina @bookish-afrolatina.bsky.social · 18d

Bad Bunny making me even prouder to be Boricua 🇵🇷 #BadBunny #PuertoRico #LHM #LatineHeritageMonth #Boricua #News #DtMF

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Gabby AKA Bookish AfroLatina @bookish-afrolatina.bsky.social · 18d

I won the Beasts of Carnaval giveaway so I want to show y’all what I got! youtu.be/_nHMfzubY0Y

This is a fantasy standalone inspired by Puerto Rico and indigenous Taíno mythology. I read it and shared a review a little while ago.

#Booksky #LHM #PuertoRican #NewBooks #BookUnboxing

Beasts of Carnaval prize

YouTube video by Bookish AfroLatina

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