Beyond the Land Acknowledgement

real lit land acknowledgement by UW Tacoma Library This project was created as a result of conversations following the practice of reading a land acknowledgement at the beginning of Real Lit[erature] book club meetings. In the wake of these acknowledgements, there was a continual sense of a conversation started but never finished. Our group wanted Read More…

New Children’s Books on Body Neutrality!

  The UW Tacoma Library  has new Children’s books! You can find them on display in the Children’s section of the Tioga Library Building this summer. This growing collection of selected and curated titles funded by the Belinda Louie Endowment speak to the way we exist in bodies. These books build a foundation for understanding Read More…

Real Lit Reads Transmogrify! – Register now!

To register for Summer Quarter 2024: Sign Up Here! In collaboration with the Center for Equity and Inclusion, the UW Tacoma Library is ecstatic to announce that our award-winning social justice book club, Real Lit[erature], will be reading Transmogrify!: 14 Fantastical Tales of Trans Magic edited by g. haron davis for Summer Quarter 2024! This Read More…

Icarus: RealLit Spring 2024 in Review

Real Lit is a book club put on by the University of Washington, Tacoma once a quarter and focuses on Young Adult fiction centering diverse perspectives, protagonists, and stories. During Spring term, the group read Icarus by K. Ancrum. If your heart sped up and images of smoke and wings and unforgiving ocean waves flashed Read More…