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About the Author

Etana Laing is an MLIS student at the University of Maryland-College Park and a library associate at Bowie State University. Etana is one of the two Freedom to Read Foundation’s 2024 Conable Scholars and the recipient of this year’s Joint Conference of Librarians of Color and SAGE scholarship. She also serves as the MLIS representative for the Dean’s Graduate Student Advisory Council. Outside of academia, she runs Revolutionary Reads, a book club for Black women, femmes, and people with lived experience of misogynoir. Etana is also a proud alumna of the first degree-granting HBCU, Lincoln University of Pennsylvania.