[photo credit: Octavia’s Bookshelf]
“Erased” applies what one Bookshop.org review called Tubbs’s “trademark blend of rigorous research and accessible storytelling” to the history of American patriarchy, tracing it from the founding fathers’ Constitutional drafting through current Supreme Court decisions, from the treatment of enslaved women to today’s maternal health crises, from the exclusion of women in the Constitution to the continued lack of an Equal Rights Amendment. The book was shortlisted for the Stowe Prize for Literary Activism.
Tubbs’s first book, “The Three Mothers” — published in 2021 — celebrated Black motherhood through the lives of the women who raised Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin. It became a New York Times bestseller and was featured in Oprah Daily, People Magazine, and on MSNBC, NPR, and CBS.
Octavia’s Bookshelf, founded by Nikki High in February 2023, is Pasadena’s first Black-owned independent bookstore. It is named for Pasadena native Octavia E. Butler and specializes in works by Black, Indigenous, and other authors of color. The shop has become a gathering place for community programming, author events, and reading groups.
Anna Malaika Tubbs in conversation with Evan Seymour will run on Saturday, May 16 from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Octavia’s Bookshelf, 1361 N. Hill Avenue, Pasadena. For more information, call (626) 421-6222 or visit octaviasbookshelf.com.
