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5.0

faliiza's review against another edition

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4.0

Touching, reflective and informative. 

The audiobook had some issues with the volume, changing to barely audible with some of the narrators. 

bethnie22's review

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5.0

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I enjoyed this collection of essays on being a black woman in today’s age. What I loved reading about most was the struggle of not being black enough. I myself have dealt with this on and off throughout my life and it seems to always be an issue initiated by others that leads me to question myself. I always think I am alone in this but I was glad to see it expressed in this book. There was a quote I resonated with: “I started trying to prove my blackness and in the process felt like I was failing at the very thing that was most obvious about me.” The experience of being picked on regardless of being around black or white people and just never fitting in anywhere. Exhausting! But another quote that I loved and I will remember now was: “I am black like me.” There is no one way to do black womanhood and we should embrace and celebrate all experiences. 

noelnoie's review

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1.0

This is a solid DNF for me! It was “okay”, up until the author in an essay about wokeness holds up Stormzy as as what she describes as “in the original woke canon”. Um... oh girl, please tell me how a man well documented on wax as making colorist comments could ever be defined as woke? It’s the irony for me.

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4.0

Engaging and accessible essays ranging in theme from lived experiences from black women to critiques of the medical industry, parenting, grief, the black diaspora, beauty standards and much more. A great collection with many passages I tabbed for future reference. 

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4.75

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hannairene3's review

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This is one of those books that isn't for me to give a rating to. I enjoyed it, I found it informative, and I hope individuals who have had similar experiences to the ones depicted in the book feel that it is an accurate representation of their experiences.
There's not a collection of essays that I won't find value in, and as difficult and heartbreaking as many of these stories were to read, they were valuable.
Worth the read, but don't take it from me. Just read the book.

dzikuskareads's review against another edition

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4.0

First of all, thanks to NetGalley for a privilage of reviewing the ARC. It was a pleasure and I really enjoyed it.

Kenya Hunt is a fashion director of Elle, she's a Black American woman living in London. Her book “Girl” is a bunch of essays written by her as well as other black writers.

It explains how it is to be a black woman in modern times. It's a true celebration of Black girl magic. Some of the topic talk about motherhood, the “otherness”, differences in being Black woman in States and the UK. “Girl show the system injustice and how the racism existing in the institutions such as hospitals.

I was really happy that Candice Carty-Williams was one of the featuring authors. I loved the way she described process of writing “Queenie”.

As I mentioned before, the book is a compilation of essays by different people. While they all talk about blackness and womanhood the whole thing lacks coherence as it jumps from one topic to another.

Kenya's book is a really powerful and important piece in today's world. I can't recommend it enough. It's the time we stop avoiding the topic of racial prejudice.