Shayla Lawson

This Is Major (eBook, ePUB)

Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A National Book Critics Circle Finalist in Autobiography * Finalist for a Lambda Literary Award * Named one of the most anticipated books of the year by USA Today, Bitch Magazine, Parade, Salon and Ms. Magazine

From a fierce and humorous new voice comes a relevant, insightful, and riveting collection of personal essays on the richness and resilience of black girl culturefor readers of Samantha Irby, Roxane Gay, Morgan Jerkins, and Lindy West.

Shayla Lawson is major. You don't know who she is. Yet. But that's okay. She is on a mission to move black girls like herself from best supporting actress to a starring role in the major narrative. Whether she's taking on workplace microaggressions or upending racist stereotypes about her home state of Kentucky, she looks for the side of the story that isn't always told, the places where the voices of black girls haven't been heard.

The essays in This is Major ask questions like: Why are black women invisible to AI? What is black girl magic? Or: Am I one viral tweet away from becoming Twitter famous? And: How much magic does it take to land a Tinder date?

With a unique mix of personal stories, pop culture observations, and insights into politics and history, Lawson sheds light on these questions, as well as the many ways black women and girls have influenced mainstream culturefrom their style, to their language, and even their artand how major they really are.

Timely, enlightening, and wickedly sharp, This Is Major places black women at the centerno longer silenced, no longer the minority.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780062890603
• Artikelnr.: 57806012

Autorenporträt

Shayla Lawson grew up in Lexington, Kentucky. She is a professor at Amherst College and lives in Brooklyn, New York.