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A review by kierscrivener
Girl Gurl Grrrl: On Womanhood and Belonging in the Age of Black Girl Magic by Kenya Hunt
4.0
This definitely wavers between three and half stars and four, it was a beautiful collection of essays from Kenya Hunt and her circle on womanhood and its intersection with Blackness, wokeness and the fashion industry, and expats and diaspora. It was finished during the time of covid, so it is one of the first books I have read that talks extensively about 2020 and the landscape of intersectional feminism and antiracism within it.
She is specifically looking at the 2010s and 2020 and I felt the relevancy and up to dateness of it, she captured the current moment very well. It was refreshing to find that. The descriptions reads "Hunt captures the zeitgeist while also creating a timeless celebration of womanhood, of blackness, and the possibilities they both contain. She blends the popular and the personal, the frivolous and the momentous in a collection that truly reflects what it is to be living and thriving as a black woman today." and this is a time that it is completely correct.
I found the contributing authors incredible. The one I most loved was Candice Carty-Williams with a reflection on publishing Queenie and how it affected her as a person, author and her perception of self. But the rest were very good as well, however as they primarily focused on the fashion world I was a little out of touch.
Overall, I really recommend this as a fantastic exploration of these themes and contemporary womanhood in 2021.
TW: sexism, racism, abortion, miscarriage, police violence, police shooting/death, grief
She is specifically looking at the 2010s and 2020 and I felt the relevancy and up to dateness of it, she captured the current moment very well. It was refreshing to find that. The descriptions reads "Hunt captures the zeitgeist while also creating a timeless celebration of womanhood, of blackness, and the possibilities they both contain. She blends the popular and the personal, the frivolous and the momentous in a collection that truly reflects what it is to be living and thriving as a black woman today." and this is a time that it is completely correct.
I found the contributing authors incredible. The one I most loved was Candice Carty-Williams with a reflection on publishing Queenie and how it affected her as a person, author and her perception of self. But the rest were very good as well, however as they primarily focused on the fashion world I was a little out of touch.
Overall, I really recommend this as a fantastic exploration of these themes and contemporary womanhood in 2021.
TW: sexism, racism, abortion, miscarriage, police violence, police shooting/death, grief