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7 Books For Reflection

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7 Books For Reflection and Inspiration. Ethel's Club builds and creates experiences that center the healing, creativity, and joy of people of color. Take what you need and if you looking for more stories centering on healing and creativity, let's journey together at ethelsclub.com.

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Notes of a Native Son

Anyone who has read James Baldwin knows how transformative his writing is. This book helped me to understand and articulate the nuances of my experience in a way I wasn’t able to prior. — Kile Atwater, Head of Partnerships

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All About Love

I read all about love during a very transformative time in my life. This book really encouraged me to explore the meaning of love and how I've understood it in my life. bell hooks is a phenomenal writer and deeply explores all the nuances of love. — Mariama Jalloh, Lead Digital Producer

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How Long Till Black Future

I reference this book and its many stories to reboot my own perception of what it means to create a world I want to see and remind myself just how far your imagination can go. If it's one thing I've learned the past few years, fiction isn't too far off from reality. — Najir Austin, Lead Designer

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How We Show Up:

We tend to live in a very individualized mindset due to trauma and survival skills but when we lean on one another and exchange care and healing, we become unstoppable. — Christofer Medina, Head of Brand Strategy

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Bad Feminist

Bad Feminist contains a collection of essays written by Roxane Gay that engages the reader in the oftentimes messy and complex experience of identifying as a feminist in this day and age. — Christian Becerra, Head of Operations

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The Year of Blue Water

The Year of Blue Water by Yanyi is a tender book of prose poetry exploring queerness, gender, family, and mental health. It's a gentle, human-read that invites us to expand ourselves and love intentionally. When I return to it, I feel fuller—and held. — Hue Minh Cao, Creative Director

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Undrowned

A meditative narrative that combines storytelling, history, and learnings of marine mammals into a deeply thoughtful book full of life. I pick it up again and again, to remind myself that the world is bigger, more nuanced, and connected in more ways than I'll ever know.