LOVE REPARATIONS

Love Reparations is a series of facilitator led literary discussions featuring books that focus on Black love, joy, intimacy, and the future of partnership. The collection of books we will be reading together are laboriously chosen to engage the community in deep conversation on Black pleasure, the history of Black unions, the current state of Black intimacy, and the future of Black love. These literary conversations will expand participants' understanding of partnership, and offer inspiration for us to love deeper and with intention.

Love Reparations will read and discuss books that transform the way we love and the way we feel joy. The project’s goal is to inspire participants to lead with joy. This project is desperately needed because partnership and healthy unions are facing extinction. According to Pew Research Center, Black Americans have the lowest marriage rate (31%), and according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 45% of all women will be single by 2030. With this project we hope to inspire women, especially women of color, to be intentional about the future of their partnerships. Through a series of literary conversations discussing books on Black joy, intimacy, plus the histories and the futures of Black love, we hope to strengthen the participants' understanding of healthy partnership, and how they are sustained through the pressures of life, especially in NYC.