https://www.theblackunicornlibrary.org/initiatives daily 0.75 2020-11-01 https://www.theblackunicornlibrary.org/initiatives/project-four-bl2ea monthly 0.5 2019-08-22 https://www.theblackunicornlibrary.org/initiatives/project-two-hg48f monthly 0.5 2019-08-22 https://www.theblackunicornlibrary.org/initiatives/project-three-j4ns3 monthly 0.5 2019-08-22 https://www.theblackunicornlibrary.org/initiatives/project-one-gxt73 monthly 0.5 2019-08-22 https://www.theblackunicornlibrary.org/events daily 0.75 2023-02-18 https://www.theblackunicornlibrary.org/events/n7zgbmip05pztctf1i21q8o2phw68q monthly 0.5 2021-01-04 https://www.theblackunicornlibrary.org/events/cultivating-genius-within-black-children-pride-virtual-speaker-series monthly 0.5 2021-12-28 https://www.theblackunicornlibrary.org/events/take-up-space-festical monthly 0.5 2021-12-03 https://www.theblackunicornlibrary.org/events/radical-art-market monthly 0.5 2021-12-03 https://www.theblackunicornlibrary.org/events/global-screening-to-honor-audre-lorde-a-litany-for-survival monthly 0.5 2022-11-30 https://www.theblackunicornlibrary.org/events/flowers-for-black-beloveds-solstice-care-packages monthly 0.5 2022-11-30 https://www.theblackunicornlibrary.org/events/ibpoc-speaker-series-bekezela-mguni-of-the-black-unicorn-library-archive-project monthly 0.5 2023-01-12 https://www.theblackunicornlibrary.org/home daily 1.0 2021-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9f1697f88f993263e90bff/1607303468317-QSCE9390W2LDWBD0MH8G/photoonwall.jpg Home - The Black Unicorn Library & Archive Project The Black Unicorn Library is a Black queer feminist library and archive. We celebrate libraries as sites of possibility and freedom. Black Unicorn centers the literary and artistic contributions of Black women, queer, Trans, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming people, and honors the far-reaching influence our storytelling has had on the lives of generations worldwide. Black Unicorn is a beacon of inspiration fueled by the genius of Black women’s stories, queer and transgender herstories, a love of libraries, and Audre Lorde. The Black Unicorn exists because there are not enough spaces to celebrate our beauty, to seek refuge from the world’s brutality, and for education that feeds us. https://www.theblackunicornlibrary.org/get-involved daily 0.75 2021-04-04 https://www.theblackunicornlibrary.org/programs daily 0.75 2022-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9f1697f88f993263e90bff/1607303542103-ZIS1OWKPCY2XNP0Z0AD1/books2small.jpg Programs - Book clubs and reading Groups We facilitate monthly book clubs and support individuals and organizations in starting their own reading groups. We also support folks in getting access to books and reading materials that they may need. We love talking about books and if you’d like to learn more about what we’re reading or would like to start something new or want to connect to a reading group please feel free to connect with via email! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9f1697f88f993263e90bff/380d4b70-22e7-4735-8dca-094ff0c4a66c/1.jpeg Programs - Reading Room Visit the Black Unicorn Library Reading Room. Borrow books, seeds, zines, sit, read and explore our archival reference collection. Browse our collection here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9f1697f88f993263e90bff/1607302914456-ZZXAQVF9QPOPL5QNFJQZ/IMG-7595.png Programs - Books and Bread/ Books and Bread Afropostale! A Black CSA (community supported art project) teaming up to bring you some Black Joy, an essential nutrient!⁣ A collaboration between the Black Unicorn Library, Wild Rise Bakery, and AfroPostale Mail Art to nourish our minds and bodies. Books and Bread AfroPostale is a quarterly gift bundle of books, baked goods, and book-themed mail art. We choose two of our Instagram followers to receive a Books & Bread AfroPostale box! Each box will contain two books curated by Black Unicorn, gluten-free goodies crafted by Wild Rise Bakery, and original bookish mail art designed by AfroPostale.⁣ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9f1697f88f993263e90bff/1617523218948-OXL7WQBR5YJKH3O4TXWX/Read-a-thon+2019.png Programs - Buy, Borrow, or Trade! At our pop-ups, special events, and farmers’ markets, you can pay what you can, borrow, or trade books with us. All proceeds go towards replenishing the library and keeping our shelves full with beautiful Black books! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9f1697f88f993263e90bff/50d4629c-954b-42b9-83d2-61039ab49c33/IMG_7770.JPG Programs - Flowers for Black Girls and Black Beloveds In 2014 a group of community members came together to celebrate Black women and girls, and honor ourselves as we mourned the loss of Teaira Whitehead. We continue to ask #WhatHappenedtoTeairaWhitehead because we will never forget our dear sibling nor any of the Black women, girls, femmes, MAGES and people impacted by gender-based violence. We commit to and will continue to do the life-affirming work of giving Black folks our flowers while we are here. We will honor our beauty, dynamism, and resilience in all of our manifestations! We make (10+) deliveries once a week on Wednesdays and we're striving to grow with more support. This is a collaboration between the Black Unicorn Library Project and Cutting Root Farm and Apothecary. If you'd like flowers, plant medicine, seeds or to gift them to someone please click the link to learn more! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9f1697f88f993263e90bff/db6a98f6-2338-43a1-8aea-2b41323707da/Seeding+FFBG+%282%29+%281%29.jpg Programs - Seed Library Borrow seeds from us and return them at the end of the growing season. If you’d like to donate seeds to the library please let us know! Check out our seeds here *Image by Leslie Stem https://www.theblackunicornlibrary.org/biography daily 0.75 2021-04-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9f1697f88f993263e90bff/1617482540549-NELTRPW1Z3Q73INQ6NZE/Bekezela+Image.jpg Biography - Bekezela Mguni Bekezela Mguni is a queer Trinidadian artist, librarian, and educator. She is a community organizer with over 15 years of experience in the Reproductive Justice movement and holds an MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh. Bekezela participated in the first Librarians and Archivists with Palestine delegation in June of 2013. She completed her first micro-residency at the Pittsburgh creative hub Boom Concepts and was featured in the 2015 Open Engagement Conference. She was a 2015-2016 member of the Penn Ave Creative Accelerator Program with the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater and launched the Black Unicorn Library and Archive Project. The Black Unicorn Project is a Black feminist community library and archive. She also served as the 2016 Sophia Smith Archive Activist-in-Residence at Smith College. Bekezela was selected as an Emerging Artist in the 2016 Three Rivers Arts Festival and won the Juror's Choice award for her visual artwork. She was a featured artist of the 2017 Activist Print Project, a partnership between, Artist Image Resource, BOOM concepts, and the Andy Warhol Museum. Bekezela is a Boom Concepts studio member, a community space and gallery dedicated to the development of artists and creative entrepreneurs. She is currently an artist in residence at Artist Image Resource and the Librarian in residence at the Pittsburgh International Airport. Bekezela also serves as the Education Program Director at Dreams of Hope which affirms the voices and leadership of LGBTQ youth through the arts. https://www.theblackunicornlibrary.org/ourstory daily 0.75 2022-12-01 https://www.theblackunicornlibrary.org/contact-us daily 0.75 2021-04-04 https://www.theblackunicornlibrary.org/about-1 daily 0.75 2020-11-01 https://www.theblackunicornlibrary.org/partners daily 0.75 2021-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9f1697f88f993263e90bff/1607305172584-NEN6AEA5LUYWFL3NU1TI/CAAPP-logosmall.png Partners - CAAPP Promoting and sharing the work of African American and African diasporic poets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9f1697f88f993263e90bff/1607305520537-08JME8TF1YII827C1LIV/Afropostsmall.jpg Partners - Afropostale Mail Art Created by Almah Lavon Rice & Indigo X, AfroPostale is an Afro-centered mail art repository made by people of the African Diaspora. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9f1697f88f993263e90bff/1607309181484-X02YS15ZUXMN4QRP8WJR/BCLAwhite.png Partners - Braddock Carnegie Library Perpetuating Andrew Carnegie’s original vision of our Library as a “Center of Light & Learning” for the community it serves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9f1697f88f993263e90bff/1607310783660-2XT2SC65PQTXNYEZGE6W/boom.jpg Partners - BOOM Concepts BOOM is a space for field building, knowledge sharing, mentorship, and storytelling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9f1697f88f993263e90bff/1608082903168-1XIRZH1S0255I3FRJFFU/BFRG.jpeg Partners - Pittsburgh Black Feminist Reading Group A community literary organization established to build solidarity amongst an intergenerational community of Black women of varying backgrounds and life experiences through reading and discussions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9f1697f88f993263e90bff/1607308251848-D9S6LHYVI6H538QDNBM5/wildrise2.png Partners - Wild Rise Bakery Pittsburgh’s best gluten-free bakery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9f1697f88f993263e90bff/1607557229066-WKZPG59PEJR72PAI6OIW/cutting_root_Front_sized.png Partners - 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