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Girl Gurl Grrrl
Girl Gurl Grrrl: On Womanhood and Belonging in the Age of Black Girl Magic | Kenya Hunt
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One of the years must-reads. ELLE [A] provocative, heart-breaking, and frequently hilarious collection. GLAMOUR Essential, vital, and urgent. HARPERS BAZAAR In the vein of Roxane Gays Bad Feminist and Issa Raes 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.
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a collection of short essays by Hunt and others that together form a chorus of Black diasporic voices across continents, covering the politics of Black hair, self-acceptance and white beauty standards, activism, motherhood, “the abysmally poor maternal health outcomes of Black women,” and more. speaks on current social moments such as Black Panther and Aretha Franklin‘s funeral. really enjoyed Kenya‘s writing and story telling.

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️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.

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