written and designed on behalf of Breedlove Readers and Marigold Arts Literacy Group, a Syracuse, NY book and art-club for middle-school and high-school aged Black girls. the club focuses on providing Black girls with literary representation of themselves through Black girl main characters and Black women authors, the April 2024 limited edition zine was printed for the CNY Arts “Art in the Atrium” Event hosted April 27, 2024. We took that “opportunity to showcase [our] art works created in response to young adult novels that focus[ed] on themes of girlhood, coming of age narratives, identity, and self-portraiture.”