Black Feminist Lending Library
Donation protected
What could be more of an investment than to foster community, assists with literacy, create a space especially with visually impaired participants in mind, and have a safe environment to bring the community together?
My name is Acquanda Stanford, and I am a decolonial Black feminist anthropologist, graduate student at the University of Washington, women's rights advocate, activist, blogger, doula, and Certified Lactation Educator. I am also creator of the group Seattle Black Feminists. SBF is a grassroots meetup group built by a desire for more community engagement, attention to anti-racism and anti-racist strategies, gender oppression, alliance-building across identities, education, holistic health, and various areas that center the unique experiences of people of African descent in Seattle and the greater Western Washington area. Here is a link to our website: https://seattleblackfeminists.wordpress.com/
SBF meets up for community conversations -- discussing important topics on current events, to shoot the breeze, discuss Black feminist books, screen Black feminist films, go out for happy hour, and other activities to make sure we regularly hang with people with like-minded political outlooks. We just organized our first overnight retreat for Black women here in the Pacific Northwest.
We recently started an independent Black Feminist Lending Library that, a this point, consists of a handful of videos -- here's what it looks like so far: SBF Library . We are also on Facebook: SBF Facebook . We are raising money to help continue building our inventory, purchase equipment to index and display the material, and create and promote the physical space that houses it.
We got a stamp.
The goal for our library is to:
1. Have safe space dedicated exclusively to Black feminism, Black feminist theory, and Womanism -- with material that encompasses direct and very strong elements of these.
2. Provide an additional site of analysis. Most often, Black feminism is looked at largely via an academic lens -- in textbooks and in scholarly journals. Although the SBF Library will eventually expand to include texts and other material, at this point we highlight video since we believe it provides the opportunity to understand Black feminism via a different vantage point. It also recognizes there are different areas of access for those who are not affiliated with academic institutions, and for those who may have a different learning ability that what is usually assumed with placing large concepts of Black feminism in written texts.
3. Support independent artists, Black feminists, Black women who are feminists and others who create, across genres of fiction and non-fiction, and produce material that more closely reflects our lived experiences.
4. Create a sense of pride in those who watch what is in our collection.
5. Foster community engagement via a central meeting place. Those who patronize the SBF Library will meet with others and share space that will help bolster ties in the community.
6. Inspire Black feminists and those interested in Black feminism to find new ways tell their stories.
7. Inspire Black feminists and those interested in Black feminism to incite social change.
8. Disrupt our exposure to white people. The white male and white female narratives that are entirely too prevalent in mainstream media, and forced down our throats on a daily basis.
9. Have content that underscores access to people with vision impairments.
We think it's important to have material from the Black and African diaspora from around the world on our shelves. Our goal is to highlight how Black & Afro-feminism is practiced, narrated, and produced on a global basis and to have these varying ideas reflected in our library. Any funds collected will help with this. It will also help with the important endeavor of providing an atmosphere that highlights access to visually impaired. Most often the visually impaired are overlooked when it comes to reading material. Our goal is to also provide equipment that will allow visually the visually impaired to access the material -- i.e. magnifiers, electronic visual aids.
Donations in other formats:
Gift cards from Thrift Books (.com): http://www.thriftbooks.com/giftcard.aspx
Email it to [email redacted](dot)com
Books: Here is more information and our wishlist: https://seattleblackfeminists.wordpress.com/2016/01/05/seattleblack-feminists-library-book-drive-wishlist-facebook/
Physical copies of films: Visit this link to see our wishlist:
Support Your Local (Seattle/Black Feminists(s)) Library
If you'd like to donate a film it mean that you already own a copy -- or find one on eBay, Amazon or another similar site and want to give it to SBF. If you have a clean, scratch-free NTSC/Region 1/ ALL Regions DVD, then contact us for instructions.
If you'd like to purchase a copy directly from the distributor to send to our way then it must be purchased at the 'community' or 'for certain groups' rate. Titles purchased directly from the distributor cannot be bought under the 'individual' category pricing with the intent to be used in our library. They come with licensing agreements that allow us to use them in this capacity, which is why there is a large jump in price.
My name is Acquanda Stanford, and I am a decolonial Black feminist anthropologist, graduate student at the University of Washington, women's rights advocate, activist, blogger, doula, and Certified Lactation Educator. I am also creator of the group Seattle Black Feminists. SBF is a grassroots meetup group built by a desire for more community engagement, attention to anti-racism and anti-racist strategies, gender oppression, alliance-building across identities, education, holistic health, and various areas that center the unique experiences of people of African descent in Seattle and the greater Western Washington area. Here is a link to our website: https://seattleblackfeminists.wordpress.com/
SBF meets up for community conversations -- discussing important topics on current events, to shoot the breeze, discuss Black feminist books, screen Black feminist films, go out for happy hour, and other activities to make sure we regularly hang with people with like-minded political outlooks. We just organized our first overnight retreat for Black women here in the Pacific Northwest.
We recently started an independent Black Feminist Lending Library that, a this point, consists of a handful of videos -- here's what it looks like so far: SBF Library . We are also on Facebook: SBF Facebook . We are raising money to help continue building our inventory, purchase equipment to index and display the material, and create and promote the physical space that houses it.
We got a stamp. The goal for our library is to:
1. Have safe space dedicated exclusively to Black feminism, Black feminist theory, and Womanism -- with material that encompasses direct and very strong elements of these.
2. Provide an additional site of analysis. Most often, Black feminism is looked at largely via an academic lens -- in textbooks and in scholarly journals. Although the SBF Library will eventually expand to include texts and other material, at this point we highlight video since we believe it provides the opportunity to understand Black feminism via a different vantage point. It also recognizes there are different areas of access for those who are not affiliated with academic institutions, and for those who may have a different learning ability that what is usually assumed with placing large concepts of Black feminism in written texts.
3. Support independent artists, Black feminists, Black women who are feminists and others who create, across genres of fiction and non-fiction, and produce material that more closely reflects our lived experiences.
4. Create a sense of pride in those who watch what is in our collection.
5. Foster community engagement via a central meeting place. Those who patronize the SBF Library will meet with others and share space that will help bolster ties in the community.
6. Inspire Black feminists and those interested in Black feminism to find new ways tell their stories.
7. Inspire Black feminists and those interested in Black feminism to incite social change.
8. Disrupt our exposure to white people. The white male and white female narratives that are entirely too prevalent in mainstream media, and forced down our throats on a daily basis.
9. Have content that underscores access to people with vision impairments.
We think it's important to have material from the Black and African diaspora from around the world on our shelves. Our goal is to highlight how Black & Afro-feminism is practiced, narrated, and produced on a global basis and to have these varying ideas reflected in our library. Any funds collected will help with this. It will also help with the important endeavor of providing an atmosphere that highlights access to visually impaired. Most often the visually impaired are overlooked when it comes to reading material. Our goal is to also provide equipment that will allow visually the visually impaired to access the material -- i.e. magnifiers, electronic visual aids.
Donations in other formats:
Gift cards from Thrift Books (.com): http://www.thriftbooks.com/giftcard.aspx
Email it to [email redacted](dot)com
Books: Here is more information and our wishlist: https://seattleblackfeminists.wordpress.com/2016/01/05/seattleblack-feminists-library-book-drive-wishlist-facebook/
Physical copies of films: Visit this link to see our wishlist:
Support Your Local (Seattle/Black Feminists(s)) Library
If you'd like to donate a film it mean that you already own a copy -- or find one on eBay, Amazon or another similar site and want to give it to SBF. If you have a clean, scratch-free NTSC/Region 1/ ALL Regions DVD, then contact us for instructions.
If you'd like to purchase a copy directly from the distributor to send to our way then it must be purchased at the 'community' or 'for certain groups' rate. Titles purchased directly from the distributor cannot be bought under the 'individual' category pricing with the intent to be used in our library. They come with licensing agreements that allow us to use them in this capacity, which is why there is a large jump in price.
Organizer
acquanda stanford
Organizer
Seattle, WA
