Almost everyone knows that June is LGBTQIA+ Pride Month, but few know it also represents Caribbean American Heritage as well. The United States has always had a tight-knit relationship with Caribbean Islanders, from important names like Alexander Hamilton, Celia Cruz, and Bob Marley, engraining Caribbean Culture into American society. Yet only recently was Caribbean American Heritage…Continue Reading Chapters and Caribbean Cultures
Bring your pets and your books this weekend because every June 21 is bring your dog to work day and every June 22 is bring your cat to work day! Throughout the semesters, we typically have something called Dog Days, where we bring in some therapy pups to help destress the students around campus, but…Continue Reading Bring Your Pets and Your Books
Juneteenth is a holiday that not many Americans know much about, yet it celebrates a major step towards equality taken by African Americans across the United States. Juneteenth only became a Federally recognized holiday in 2021, yet it has a much deeper and richer history than that. Sometimes referred to as Freedom Day or Emancipation…Continue Reading Celebrating Freedom, Sharing Black Stories, and Understanding the Importance of Juneteenth
I’ve always loved vexillology (the study of flags) and have a large collection of all 50 state flags and the flags of all the countries I have visited. Many people don’t know that every June 14 the United States honors the day the Continental Congress adopted the 13 Stripes and Stars of the original 13…Continue Reading Flags to Pages
One of my favorite books I read this past schoolyear was one I read in my Intermediate Non-Fiction course with Professor Glen Retief; that book is Carmen Maria Machado’s “In the Dream House,” a devastating yet splendid memoir from the perspective of an abused woman in her same-sex relationship. About the Book: Carmen Maria Machado…Continue Reading Book Review: In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
Summer is coming in HOT this year as we enter into June, which also welcomes important international holidays to bring awareness to our one and only Earth. Specifically, there are two holidays proposed and celebrated by the United Nations to raise awareness for environmental issues. The U.N. first celebrated World Environment Day in Stockholm, Sweden,…Continue Reading Narratives of Nature
There are few places spoken of that can unite us in such dark discomfort yet intrigue the minds of anyone in earshot. I picked up The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe with a culmination of fear and curiosity. To me, a library is one of the safest and calmest environments, a place to relax and…Continue Reading Book Review: The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe
Here at Susquehanna University, we don’t typically get the opportunity to celebrate Pride Month in June (seeing as we tend to finish Spring Semester in mid-May) as such, we usually partake in the festivities in April, and this year the Student Library Advisory Committee pulled together a list of 45 of our most popular LGBTQIA+…Continue Reading Read With Pride!
May is a month of representation for many groups across the nation. May is Mental Health Awareness Month, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and Jewish American Heritage Month, and we’ve got shelves full of books for people of all communities to enjoy. Mental Health Awareness: Way back in 1908, Mental Health Awareness Month…Continue Reading Books You May Read This May
I believe I mentioned in my “Spring Book Recs” post that something about spring puts me in the mood for historical romance. A Fragile Enchantment by Allison Saft gives the vibes of a regency era romance within the bonds of an intricately political world of magic. Niamh has magic in her blood that allows her…Continue Reading Book Review: A Fragile Enchantment by Allison Saft
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