Greetings! I am Dinah, a Mount Hope resident, and like
many of you, I’m looking for ways to better educate myself on how I can
become actively anti-racist.
A couple weeks ago, I came across an Instagram account put together by Sarah Kamya
of Arlington, MA. While walking past her neighbourhood Little Free
Library recently, she thought to herself, “It would be great if we could
fill that with diverse books by Black authors.” Sarah has since
received thousands of dollars in donations and thousands of books and
has set her sights on filling LFLs across the U.S.
I think we can do that here! So I’ve set up a project and
I need your help. We are specifically looking for books by BIPOC
authors and with BIPOC content (Black, Indigenous and People of
Colour).
If you’re on Instagram, you can find me @KWLittleFreeDiverseLibraries for all the details and frequent updates. But here is the quick info on how you can pitch in:
1) Donate money. This option is great
because money raised allows me to buy books from Black-owned bookstores
in the GTA as well as from Wordsworth Books in Waterloo. Then we can
support small biz! Money raised is spent approx 50-50 between one of
several Black-owned bookstores and Wordsworth. I’d like to check out
some small used bookstores locally, as well. Money can be sent to me at murdochdinah@gmail.com via PayPal or etransfer.
2) Click this link and
you get to an Indigo registry I created with about 200 titles. You can
click to order and the books are shipped straight to me. If there’s a
title you love and it’s not on the list, go for it.
3) You can buy books at small or used bookstores yourself and drop them off chez moi. Contact me at murdochdinah@gmail.com for my address. You can also pass on books (that fit the bill) that you’ve read and enjoyed from your own collection.
My goal is to get books into LFLs all over KW.
Especially into diverse neighbourhoods where children and adults may not
have enough access to books that reflect their own lives and
experiences.
Thanks in advance for your interest and your help! Please spread the word!
Dinah
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