July 2020

For July, my reading recommendation is Human(Kind) by Ashlee Eiland. It is a beautiful collection of essays about extending kindness that is woven together by powerful themes such as curiosity, humility, belonging, perspective, risk, loss and more.
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Through her essays, we join Eiland on a journey as she develops her own unique worth and voice "as a black woman living on two sides of the fence: as token black girl in majority - white spaces and as the "whitewashed" black girl in the majority-black spaces." She illustrates the power of extending kindness to others, regardless of race, social status, political views, or religious beliefs and how this not only gives us hope and but also rekindles our common humanity.