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The stories of Berdis, Alberta, and Louise are fascinating and significant. The challenges the author - a Black woman herself who had just become a mother - were substantial. I recommend this book with the caveat that the organizational structure could have had a smoother, more coherent flow. I don't recommend reading the final Conclusion section, as it veers far out of the book's stated lane, becoming more of a frantic highlights reel of all (not actually nearly all) the well-known instances of Black people being murdered, either by police or bashers of trans women. Superficial mentionings of Trump's antics don't improve or conclude the book well, in my opinion. Read this not because it's a particularly strong biographical work, but because the importance of Black Mothers has indeed been under-credited and unacknowledged or straight up maligned for far too long.