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The SBG Mission

For the Black girls in the forgotten spaces.
Bringing together an international community of women of color through reading and dialogue. 

SBG Book Club is not just about what book to read. It’s about the community we have access to. It’s about helping each one of us to find the intelligence we hold inside. It’s about digging deeper and building out a world that is bigger than us.

We have two memberships types, to ensure our book club is accessible to all.

  • General Membership

    This is our free membership track!
    Sign up and join the Facebook Group and/or Discord for the SBG Book Club

    ↳ Monthly readings announced via newsletter.
    ↳Mid-read discussions via Facebook Group.
    ↳Author Chats.

    Syllabus available for purchase + download
    each month.

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  • Insider Membership

    Become an Insider and gain elevated access while helping to support SBG! Insiders help us pay our team equitable rates.

    ↳Free Syllabi
    ↳Vote on Book Choices
    ↳Private Author Chats
    ↳Membership fee is a tax deductible donation.

    ↳Discount on shop goods.

    + more to come!

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General Track Book of the Month

Honey & Spice by Bolu Babalola

Sharp-tongued (and secretly soft-hearted) Kiki Banjo has just made a huge mistake. As an expert in relationship-evasion and the host of the popular student radio show Brown Sugar, she’s made it her mission to make sure the women of the African-Caribbean Society at Whitewell University do not fall into the mess of “situationships”, players, and heartbreak. But when the Queen of the Unbothered kisses Malakai Korede, the guy she just publicly denounced as “The Wastemen of Whitewell,” in front of every Blackwellian on campus, she finds her show on the brink.

They’re soon embroiled in a fake relationship to try and salvage their reputations and save their futures. Kiki has never surrendered her heart before, and a player like Malakai won’t be the one to change that, no matter how charming he is or how electric their connection feels. But surprisingly entertaining study sessions and intimate, late-night talks at old-fashioned diners force Kiki to look beyond her own presumptions. Is she ready to open herself up to something deeper?

Exploration Track - Spring 2023

African-American Women's History and the Metalanguage of Race by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

Thru August 2023

Article is included in the syllabus.

Often referred to as “The Metalanguage of Race,” Higginbotham’s essay is critically esteemed for its emphasis on Black women’s history and pointed analyses of the essentialism of gender and race in the academy, particularly feminist theory.  “Metalanguage” laid the groundwork for what scholars–such as literary scholar Saidiya Hartman and historian Sarah Haley–would call a Black Feminist Framework and Methodology within historical research.  

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We are a 501(c)3 public non-profit that runs on community support to pay our staff equitable rates for their time and labor. All donations to SBG are tax deductible.