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Last night was so fun! Totally see why @thealexnewell won a Tony. 🎭 Just oozing talent! Thanks @uncgarts for a lovely evening. by @galegreenlee

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Join us for the 2026 Making & Thinking Conference at the Folk Art Center 10am-4:30pm on Sept. 5th and 6th. This event is free and open to the public.

On Saturday, Greenlee and caldwell will discuss their curatorial book project and exhibition, “belonging to place: The Creative Community & Artistic Legacy of bell hooks” on view at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts at Appalachian State University, in Boone, N.C.

Greenlee, who holds a doctorate in African American literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is a freelance writer/editor and an independent literary scholar whose work centers on Black girlhood, geography, nature and freedom. Born in Greensboro, NC, with roots in rural South Carolina and Western North Carolina, she was a teacher-scholar in residence at the bell hooks center at Berea College, KY. and an inaugural Craft Archival Research Fellow for the Center for Craft.

Caldwell is an Appalachian artist, educator, curator, and scholar rooted in her hometown of Boone, NC. Through her practice, she explores collaborative opportunities for the expansion of Appalachianplacemaking liberatory feminist belonging, with publications in the Appalachian Journal, Inuit Quarterly, and the International Journal of Education Through Art. Caldwell received two bachelor’s degrees and a master’s degree in Appalachian studies and nonprofit administration from Appalachian State University in Boone, NC and has exhibited her work locally, nationally and internationally. taken in Southern Highland Craft Guild, Folk Art Center by @galegreenlee

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My reading circle for @center4fiction kicked off last night with folk ATL, LA, Philly, Greenville (NC), Toronto and a bunch of folk from NYC (via Durham, Texas, and Nigeria). Read my thoughts about the series in @publisherswkly children's bookshelf: https://bit.ly/4yeMRHH
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Our book got a shoutout in The New York Times! Working with the bell hooks center, bell hooks Institute, and artists in the project— alongside many other incredible advocates for bell’s work— we organized a grassroots effort to get hooks’s “Communion” on the best seller list this month— and succeeded! We just got our official cover, and you can now pre-order from the University Press of Kentucky’s website ✨

The book will feature a catalog of Dr. hooks’s rarely seen personal art collection, a transcript of an artist talk she gave at her local library, as well as features of sixteen women and non-binary artists inspired by her work. 🔔 ♥️ by @galegreenlee

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After almost a year and a half, it's finally here: "Holla! Black Girlhood Pedagogies in an Abolitionist Appalachian Classroom." Co-written by my sista-scholar LeAnna T. Luney, PhD and myself, "Holla!" is a labor of love and our contribution to Black Girlhood Studies and Feminist Studies. It's part of a special issue of the Journal of Appalachian Studies, and it's our love letter to Appalachia and Black girls. Read it now, for free, at https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jas/article/doi/10.5406/23288612.32.1.05/411252/Holla-Black-Girlhood-Pedagogies-in-an-Abolitionist?guestAccessKey=84dca0f0-5eab-4f11-bd71-b0b6e68c9fd1. by @galegreenlee

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Enter the world of Black children’s fiction, written by literary luminaries past and present. Quiet as it’s kept, and long before the emergence of We Need Diverse Books and the assault against young people’s rights to read, Black writers crafted stories for young readers’ eyes. From W. E. B. Du Bois’s magazine The Brownies’ Book, to poetry collections by Eloise Greenfield, Lucille Clifton, and Nikki Giovanni, to fiction by Virginia Hamilton, Christopher Paul Curtis, and Walter Dean Myers, Black authors have created a children’s literary tradition that, as Langston reminds us, runs “deep like the rivers.”

Together, we’ll explore this significant and longstanding form of expression of Black writers. We’ll read historic, formerly out-of-print, and award-winning children’s novels from the 1960s and 1970s. Each presents a bold and uncompromising narrative that confronts the realities of growing up Black in America in the midst of violence, systemic racism, and social change. Reading across time and geography (from 17th-century New England, to New York, to Appalachia and the Deep South), we’ll dig into a curated collection of children’s fiction that reflects the call of Black writers to grapple with notions of power and freedom, create community, and affirm the youngest among us.

Join me! Registration's open now @center4fiction 📚 by @galegreenlee

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@bereacollege’s @bellhookscenter and bell hooks Institute are excited to share that hooks’ Communion is on the @nytimes Best Seller list for the first time! All About Love has also returned to the NYT’s Best Seller list!

A special thanks to social media efforts to up sales of bell hooks’ Communion (@shaunacaldwell @galegreenlee @lydiasee.studio @joytabernaclekmt and others!) by @galegreenlee

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Join us in an effort to get Dr. bell hooks’s “Communion” on the bestseller list on June 16! Support your local independent bookstore or buy online through bookshop.org & please share! ✨ #bellhooks #communion by @galegreenlee

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Excited to attend SOFTEN by @embodiedblackgirl a free 3 day retreat to cultivate the depths of our healing, ancestral gifts and leadership! Link in bio @embodiedblackgirl www.embodiedblackgirl.com/soften #embodiedblackgirl #soften #softenbyebg by @galegreenlee

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Happy to be home in North Cackalacky by @galegreenlee

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In honor of Valentine's Day (or Gale-ntine's Day, get it? 😂), I got to chop it up with It's Been a Minute's host, Brittany Luse about bell hooks's classic "All About Love" and the enduring power of her Black feminist legacy. Check it out (link also in bio): https://www.npr.org/2023/02/13/1156585379/unlocking-desire-through-smut-plus-the-gospel-of-bell-hooks by @galegreenlee

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So excited for my Black Girlhood Studies scholars who will be hosting Dr. Aria S. Halliday, as the first colloquium of the 2023 spring semester! Come thru, this Thursday, February 16, 2023 at 11 am in the @bellhookscenter (Draper 106)! by @galegreenlee

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