A prominent promoter of Black voices, Adichie has attracted international attention with her 2013 TEDx talk “We Should All Be Feminists,” (named after her book of the same name) which Beyoncé later sampled on her song “Flawless” before going on to champion the vital roles of storytellers, self-expression, and intellectual freedom for a healthy society.
We are delighted to be able to offer a breastfeeding pod to all nursing mothers, now available on the second floor of the Library. This new facility supports new parents by providing a safe and comfortable private space for breastfeeding and expressing milk, making it easier to combine work, study and motherhood.
These facilities are designed to provide a comfortable and private space for breastfeeding and expressing milk. The breastfeeding and expressing pods will help ease the transition back to work for new mothers, promote the well-being of both parent and child, and helps promote equality of opportunity across our diverse community.
Former editor and multi-award winning bestselling author Kacen Callender of multiple novels for children, teens, and adults, including the National Book Award-winning King and the Dragonflies and the bestselling novel Felix Ever After, Kacen Callendar is a leading contemporary Black, trans, nonbinary author .
The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing in partnership with Outside in World, the organisation dedicated to promoting and exploring world literature and children’s books in translation, are delighted to announce the latest event in their seminar series on translation for children. This webinar will explore Jaime Gamboa and Wen Hsu Chen’s El Cuento Fantasma, its selection as part of Outside in World’s Reading the Way project, and how it came to be translated by Daniel Hahn for Lantana as The Invisible Story. Hear from the author, illustrator and others involved discuss the project.
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James Baldwin has been praised for writing one of the greatest English language novels, “Go Tell It on the Mountain”. A gay, Black civil and human rights activist, Baldwin wrote essays calling for human equality and became a well-known public figure and orator, especially during the civil rights movement in the United States. Baldwin became equally famous for his essays and political writing, which spanned the gamut of from race to sexuality, love to jazz, and addiction to identity politics, all of which remain as contentious and relevant today as they were when they were first published.
We are excited to unveil a new dedicated bookable pod for new mothers to breastfeed and express milk. Not everyone is comfortable feeding their baby or expressing milk in public, so we have introduced bookable breastfeeding pods in the Library and Richmond building exclusively to support new mothers.
Join me on an exploration of the great Black authors of the twentieth century in a series of blog posts, all tagged with “Black History Month 2024”. Black writers have been among the most influential and insightful thinkers of the past century, echoing the philosophies developing since antiquity that tell us how to thrive amid adversity and remind us of how we support ourselves best when we help others to succeed.
In response to student feedback, hot food can now be eaten in the University Library and microwaves are available in the café area for you to use. Please keep hot food in the café area, clean up after yourself and help us to make this trial a success.
From Monday 30 September 2024, the Library Meeting Room (UL 0.12) will be being used for ID checks for international students. While these checks are carried out, we regret we cannot offer a dedicated postgraduate study space in the Library. I mentioned that this was likely back in June when the old Postgraduate Study Suite was turned into staff offices in preparation for the extension connecting the Library and Student Union to create a new student hub.
