Girl gurl grrrl : on womanhood and belonging in the age of black girl magic / Kenya Hunt.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]Edition: First editionDescription: 249 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780062987648
- 006298764X
- Girl girl girl
- 305.48/896073 23
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Book | Bedford Public Library Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction | 305.48896 HUN | Available | 32500001807867 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A People Pick!
"One of the year's must-reads." -ELLE
"[A] provocative, heart-breaking, and frequently hilarious collection." -GLAMOUR
"Essential, vital, and urgent." -HARPER'S BAZAAR
In the vein of Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist and Issa Rae's The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, but wholly its own, a provocative, humorous, and, at times, heartbreaking collection of essays on what it means to be black, a woman, a mother, and a global citizen in today's ever-changing world.
Black women have never been more visible or more publicly celebrated than they are now. But for every new milestone, every magazine cover, every box office record smashed, every new face elected to public office, the reality of everyday life for black women remains a complex, conflicted, contradiction-laden experience.
An American journalist who has been living and working in London for a decade, Kenya Hunt has made a career of distilling moments, movements, and cultural moods into words. Her work takes the difficult and the indefinable and makes it accessible; it is razor sharp cultural observation threaded through evocative and relatable stories.
Girl Gurl Grrrl both illuminates our current cultural moment and transcends it. Hunt captures the zeitgeist while also creating a timeless celebration of womanhood, of blackness, and the possibilities they both contain. She blends the popular and the personal, the frivolous and the momentous in a collection that truly reflects what it is to be living and thriving as a black woman today.
Girl -- Notes on woke -- Wakanda forever -- An American in London -- In my feelings -- Sally Hemings and hidden figures -- Upon reflection / Funmi Fetto -- Motherhood -- Skinfolk -- Make yourself at home, but not here -- I see black people -- Loss / Ebele Okobi -- So we don't die tomorrow / Jessica Horn -- The Lord's house, a queen's soul -- Inferno -- Just for me / Freddie Harrel -- The front row -- Modern activism -- On Queenie / Candice Carty-Williams -- Bad bitches.
Black women have never been more visible or more publicly celebrated than they are now. But for every new milestone, the reality of everyday life for black women remains a complex, conflicted, contradiction-laden experience. Hunt, an American journalist who has been living and working in London for a decade, takes the difficult and the indefinable and makes it accessible. Here she illuminates our current cultural moment-- and transcends it. In creating a timeless celebration of womanhood, of blackness, and the possibilities they both contain, she blends the popular and the personal in a collection that truly reflects what it is to be living and thriving as a black woman today. -- adapted from jacket