The Diverse Baseline: June 2025 Newsletter

We want to start by sharing some glimmers and gratitude:

Thank yall for being part of our TDB community!

Check out Brittany’s stop (^^)on the #ANHPIBookstaTour to read her reflections about being part of the ANHPI Diaspora. Thank you for following along (check out the hashtag on Instagram or the highlight on Brittany’s account, shown below in the blue circle, for more posts) and uplifting Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander voices all year long.

There is no *set* June prompt this year. This challenge is fully up to you :) You can choose whichever book you want for each month, as long as it fits one of the ~90 prompts we’ve listed and is written by a racialized author.

We included a definition of this:

Brittany is hosting a StoryGraph book club for the following book:

To purchase using Brittany’s affiliate links, you can do so here:

Brittany is hosting her first ever synchronous Zoom book club THIS FRIDAY May 30th at 6:00pm Pacific Time. Be warned, she loves corny, cheesy icebreakers; you only have to participate in them if you want, but the questions will be posed! You were warned! Zoom information will be shared on Storygraph by Wednesday night.

Here is a time zone converter to check how this aligns with your time zone.

Join her Storygraph book club here for more details.

We are sharing a few reviews each month and we thank you for sharing your reviews on socials.

Remember to use #TheDiverseBaseline2025 when posting your reviews, and/or tagging us (only if you want to/feel comfortable doing so), so we can find & spotlight them here.

If you click the below photos, they are hyperlinked to take you to their social media pages :)

In the carrd, you will find links to Canva templates for your Instagram feed and Instagram stories, as well as some fun stickers you can use in your posts.

If you have any templates that you have made and would like us to spread the word about, please email us with links to your templates and we will share in the Discord and the next newsletter!

We now both have official recommendation lists, as well as general lists of books we’ve read for the challenge, on libro.fm and bookshop.org. If you would like highly recommended books from us, check out our links and support local/indie bookstores in the process (if it’s an accessible option for you).

Brittany’s Libro FM playlist | Margherita’s Libro FM playlist

Brittany’s Bookshop.org list | Margherita’s Bookshop.org list

Brittany is a reader from the San Francisco Bay Area. She can be found here. She also hosts the SF Bay Area chapter of Cassie’s Walking Club on Strava.

Margherita is a reader and indie author from Italy. Xe can be found on instagram, tiktok and substack. Xyr website with links to xyr books, author services, and more is linked here.