Feminist AF : a guide to crushing girlhood
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York, NY : Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company, [2021]
Physical Description
230 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Audience
Ages 13-18 Norton Young Readers.
Summary
"Hip-hop and feminism combine in this empowering guide with attitude, from best-selling author Brittney Cooper and founding members of the Crunk Feminist Collective. Loud and rowdy girls, quiet and nerdy girls, girls who rock naturals, girls who wear weave, outspoken and opinionated girls, girls still finding their voice, queer girls, trans girls, and gender nonbinary young people who want to make the world better: Feminist AF uses the insights of feminism to address issues relevant to today's young women. What do you do when you feel like your natural hair is ugly, or when classmates keep touching it? How do you handle your self-confidence if your family or culture prizes fair-skinned women over darker-skinned ones? How do you balance your identities if you're an immigrant or the child of immigrants? How do you dress and present yourself in ways that feel good when society condemns anything outside of the norm? Covering colorism and politics, romance and pleasure, code switching, and sexual violence, Feminist AF is the empowering guide to living your feminism out loud"--
Notes
Includes index.
Contents
- Let's get it started
- Me, myself, and I. Flawless ; Bossin' up ; Nice for what? ; Can we live?
- Beauty. Don't touch my hair ; Rock your body, body ; Brown skin girl ; Let me grab my hoops (and other talismans)
- What about your friends (and family and 'em)? The fam ; Booed up ; Let's talk about sex, baby ; Ain't nobody messin' with the clique
- Fight the power. Classy, bougie, rachet ; Switchin' it up ; This is America ; I'm comin' out
- It's a wrap.