Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap FeministGrowing up on the south side of Chicago, Sesali Bowen learned early on how to hustle, stay on her toes, and champion other Black women and femmes as she navigated Blackness, queerness, fatness, friendship, poverty, sex work, and self love. Her love of trap music led her to the top of hip hop journalism, profiling game changing artists like Megan Thee Stallion, Lizzo, and Janelle Monae. But despite all the beauty, complexity, and general badassery she

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A collection of essays taking aim at the legitimacy of the modern feminist movement

and academic success

they are set on a heart-pounding course to destroy each other

It's up to Shenice to discover the truth about her family's past-and fast-before secrets take the Firebirds out of the game forever

He is given the nickname Anansi by his father because of his similarly cheeky ways

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Jeanette is battling addiction

stories of truth and power

At a time when Black women are depicted as more ugly

It is at once a searing exploration that lays bare the tangled web of race

Alabama--and the son of its most revered preacher