BAD Readers Qlub

​The BAD Readers Qlub is exactly what it sounds like—a book club for folks who struggle with getting through a book!

​BAD Readers Qlub offers an empowering space for community members to develop literary habits while decolonizing their personal libraries through facilitated discussions, guided readings, and writing prompts.

​Join us in October while we read The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez. We will have limited books available.

​The Gilda Stories is a groundbreaking speculative fiction vampire novel that begins in 1850s Louisiana, where a young Gilda escapes slavery and learns about freedom while working in a brothel. After being initiated into eternal life as one who “shares the blood” by two women there, Gilda spends the next two hundred years searching for a place to call home. Taking only blood as sustenance, killing as a last resort, Gilda moves through the centuries up to the dystopian future of 2050. Gomez’s classic, with a Black lesbian heroine, has endured as an auspiciously prescient book in its explorations of Blackness, radical ecology, redefinitions of family, and the erotic potential of the vampire story.

​This is a queer space!