“Half myth-buster, half crusader
Dear Black Girl
Dear Black Girl: Letters From Your Sisters On Stepping Into Your Power features the best of the Letters to Black Girls Project — More than 30 feminist, anti-racist, body positive, LGBTQ+ positive, anti-respectability politics and pro-Black letters from Black women to Black girls wrapped in author Tamara Winfrey-Harris’ analysis. Dear Black Girl is a must-read antidote to the world’s ugly, unforgiving gaze—a balm for the wounds of anti-Black-girlness.
The Sisters Are Alright
Sapphire. Mammy. Jezebel. America has bound Black women to this coven of caricatures for centuries. Author Tamara Winfrey-Harris exposes the cost of misogynoir, uplifts the experiences of real Black women and shows how they are pushing back and getting free. The expanded second edition of this award-winning book features new Black femme voices talking about marriage, motherhood, health, sexuality, beauty, anger, and power and fresh Black feminist analysis of current events, politics and, popular culture–from “W.A.P.” and the rise of digital blackface to new civic activism and the risks of Black maternity.
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praise for Dear Black Girl
“Winfrey Harris highlights the spectrum of Blackness and the Black experience, writing with necessary candor throughout. Beautifully written, the letters often feel like a collection of essays and poems. One standout contribution features the perspective of a “transracial adoptee” writing to other Black girls raised within White families; the author discusses the realities of alienation and the longing for connection.”
“Dear Black Girl is the empowering, affirming love letter our girls need in order to thrive in a world that does not always protect, nurture, or celebrate us. This collection of Black women’s voices — frank, heartfelt, down to earth, and wise — is a must-read, not only for Black girls, but for everyone who cares about Black girls, and for Black women whose inner-Black girl could use some healing.”
Tarana Burke,
Founder of the ‘Me Too’ Movement
“As a writer, I know I love something when I think, ‘Wow. I wish I wrote that.’ As a Black woman, I know something moves me when I think, ‘I needed to read that.’ The essays in Dear Black Girl, offered me both.
Dear Black Girl is for the little Black girls who still need the language to process their magic. It is also for the Black women who are still trying to be convinced of their own. In a world that often leaves us with more questions than answers this book is a literal gift.”
Bassey Ikpi
Mental health advocate; author, I’m Telling the Truth But I’m Lying
“Nobody can make a Black girl feel seen like another sister can. This book, a conversation across generations, is a loving, trenchant reminder that Black girls deserve tenderness, care, and the forgiving mirrors that are another Black woman’s eyes.”
Dr. Brittney Cooper
Educator, activist, and author, Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
praise for The Sisters Are Alright second edition
“The Sisters Are Alright is a brilliant example of Tamara Winfrey-Harris’ unique alchemy: bold writing and astute cultural analysis with Black women unapologetically centered. Read this and know us more fully.”
Deesha Philyaw, author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
“Toni Morrison once wrote that the Black woman ‘may very well have invented herself,’ and chapter by chapter, with historical complexity and contemporary context, Tamara Winfrey-Harris tells you just how all that self-invention gets done, and all the ways it remains a beautiful, elaborate, ongoing project.”
Lonnae O’Neal, journalist, ESPN’s The Undefeated
“The Sisters Are Alright does more than change the narrative. It gives that mythical, false, diminished narrative the funeral it deserves–powerful, decisive, heartbreaking and final.”
Rochelle Riley, author of The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery and That They Lived
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