Seattle Latinx Bookclub - My Mother Was A Freedom Fighter
2025-09-27 | TBA
This month we’ll be discussing Aja Monet’s poetry collection, My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter. Powerful, poetic meditations on motherhood, sisterhood, spirituality, solidarity, displacement/gentrification, racism, and sexism. As always, our number one priority is creating comunidad. So please feel free to attend even if you didn’t get a chance to finish the book this month.
Nos vemos pronto!
Where to find the book
You can find a copy of their book on Bookshop.org here
Purchase through Estelita’s Library‘s Bookshop.org storefront, and you’ll support Seattle’s local Black/Brown-owned justice-focused community bookstore & lending library.
You can also find the book at Seattle Public Library in print, ebook, and audiobook formats.
About the Book
The poetry collection, My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter is poet Aja Monet’s ode to mothers, daughters, and sisters–the tiny gods who fight to change the world. Textured with the sights and sounds of growing up in East New York in the nineties, to school on the South Side of Chicago, all the way to the olive groves of Palestine, these stunning poems tackle racism, sexism, genocide, displacement, heartbreak, and grief, but also love, motherhood, spirituality, and Black joy.
About the Author
Of Cuban-Jamaican descent, Aja Monet is an internationally established poet, performer, singer, songwriter, educator, and human rights advocate. Monet is also the youngest person to win the legendary Nuyorican Poet’s Café Grand Slam title.

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Book Discussion: Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi
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Contemporary Translated Works
Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi, Translated by Marilyn Booth
May 20 | 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Zoom

Winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize, Jokha Alharthi’s Celestial Bodies follows three sisters in a small Omani village, each navigating love and marriage against the backdrop of a country transforming from a traditional, slave-owning society into its complex modern present. A multigenerational portrait of one family’s losses and loves, it is the first novel translated from Arabic to win the prize.
Free to Folio & NOTIS members.
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