87. Brooms by Jasmine Walls and Teo Duvall

The Library Coven

This week we are discussing the graphic novel Brooms by Jasmine Walls and Teo DuVall (with additional contributions by Bex Glendining and Ariana Maher). This story follows a wide cast of characters in 1930s Mississippi, where magic is restricted based on race and class. Broom racing is outlawed by the state, but clandestine competitions offer much needed prize money. Mattie and Emma are two Chocktaw youth trying to evade detection by the authorities so they don’t get sent to government boarding school. So they learn to race and make connections with some queer and trans role models along the way.

Many thanks to Lee & Low Books for reaching out to us and sending an ARC! We both got physical copies from our respective libraries for this episode.

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• Recommend if you like…
  • Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker
  • Artie and the Wolf Moon by Olivia Stephens
  • Crumbs by Danie Stirling
  • Fast and Furious franchise (lol)
• A smol selection of sign language resources and Deaf/HoH creators
  • Bill Vickers’s youtube channel
  • El Deafo by Cece Bell (graphic novel and now adapted on AppleTv+)
  • Nakia Smith
  • Otis Jones
  • Phelan Conway
• Re: residential schools (mega content warning)
  • “History of US Indian Boarding Schools”
  • Interactive map of residential schools
  • The Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report (2022)

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