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The Reading Room is a weekly virtual gathering built around books written by Black womxn. Every title selected for this space comes from a tradition of voices that have been strategically undervalued, underrepresented, and overlooked in mainstream literary and intellectual culture. Reading them together is both a practice and a statement.
This is not a formal book club with assigned chapters, reading quizzes, or pressure to have finished the whole thing before you arrive. The Reading Room is a living space — part reading group, part conversation circle, part community. You can come having read every page or having read none of them. The conversation will meet you where you are.
What anchors the space is not how much you've read. It is your willingness to sit with ideas that might challenge, move, or rearrange something in you — and to do that in the company of others who are trying to grow too.
The Reading Room is open to anyone who is genuinely open-minded and committed to learning and growing. This includes people who have not historically centered Black womxn's voices in their reading life and who are ready to do something about that. It includes people who have always read Black womxn authors and want a community to read alongside. It includes people who used to love reading and lost the habit and want a gentle way back in.
What this space is not for: people who arrive to debate the validity of the authors' experiences, center their own discomfort, or treat the space as an opportunity to demonstrate allyship rather than practice it.
Books are selected by the Reading Room community and rotated seasonally — roughly one book every four to six weeks — to give the community time to move through a text without pressure. Selections span fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry, and essay collections, because Black womxn's writing does not fit neatly into a single shelf.
Upcoming selections will be announced at the beginning of each season and shared across KinJour Gathering's community channels.
Each Thursday gathering opens with a brief grounding — a passage, a question, or a moment of quiet to transition out of the day. We then move into facilitated conversation around the week's focus — a section of the text, a theme, a question the book raised. There is room for disagreement, for uncertainty, and for sitting with something that doesn't resolve neatly. We close with a reflection prompt to carry into the week and a preview of where we're heading next.
The optional virtual reading room — a quiet Zoom space open before the main session for those who want to read together in shared silence before the conversation begins — will be announced periodically throughout the season.
Investment: Free Registration is required.
The Reading Room is a weekly virtual gathering built around books written by Black womxn. Every title selected for this space comes from a tradition of voices that have been strategically undervalued, underrepresented, and overlooked in mainstream literary and intellectual culture. Reading them together is both a practice and a statement.
This is not a formal book club with assigned chapters, reading quizzes, or pressure to have finished the whole thing before you arrive. The Reading Room is a living space — part reading group, part conversation circle, part community. You can come having read every page or having read none of them. The conversation will meet you where you are.
What anchors the space is not how much you've read. It is your willingness to sit with ideas that might challenge, move, or rearrange something in you — and to do that in the company of others who are trying to grow too.
The Reading Room is open to anyone who is genuinely open-minded and committed to learning and growing. This includes people who have not historically centered Black womxn's voices in their reading life and who are ready to do something about that. It includes people who have always read Black womxn authors and want a community to read alongside. It includes people who used to love reading and lost the habit and want a gentle way back in.
What this space is not for: people who arrive to debate the validity of the authors' experiences, center their own discomfort, or treat the space as an opportunity to demonstrate allyship rather than practice it.
Books are selected by the Reading Room community and rotated seasonally — roughly one book every four to six weeks — to give the community time to move through a text without pressure. Selections span fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry, and essay collections, because Black womxn's writing does not fit neatly into a single shelf.
Upcoming selections will be announced at the beginning of each season and shared across KinJour Gathering's community channels.
Each Thursday gathering opens with a brief grounding — a passage, a question, or a moment of quiet to transition out of the day. We then move into facilitated conversation around the week's focus — a section of the text, a theme, a question the book raised. There is room for disagreement, for uncertainty, and for sitting with something that doesn't resolve neatly. We close with a reflection prompt to carry into the week and a preview of where we're heading next.
The optional virtual reading room — a quiet Zoom space open before the main session for those who want to read together in shared silence before the conversation begins — will be announced periodically throughout the season.
Investment: Free Registration is required.