Cydny Consults is creating a safe space for women to read, analyze and explore bell hooks' transformative work: Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery. 

This Book Discussion registration form is to gain access to our virtual, self-paced and asynchronous platform to analyze the text and have access to be in community with others to reflect on and connect to the text.  

If you are new to hooks' work, she was a prolific and profound writer, theorist, and cultural critic.  Her work consistently challenged and expanded our understanding of race, class and gender.  

Sisters of the Yam is a book that I think is particularly POWERful!  It's a roadmap for healing, specifically designed for Black women.  hooks doesn't just theorize, she offers practical, tangible ways to confront the pain of systemic oppression and find paths to move forward in self-love and overall wellness.

I hope you can join us on this journey.

Register here 

Verses: The Adult literacy lessons you didn't learn in English class

Come, get this lesson!

Join Cydny Consults on a journey through literature exploring and analyzing the works of literary icons and revolutionaries who flexed their power through their lived experiences, their visions, and their pens!  You may not have learned much about them in public school, but you will learn about them in our classroom!  These adult literacy lessons are designed to be engaging, inspiring, real, relatable and very relevant.  

Registration for Verses will open in November 2025; for our Winter/Spring 2026 session.

If you would like to receive an email alert when registration for upcoming VERSES sessions open, please complete this interest form.

Coming to Central, VA - 2026!