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A review by zionsadventures
Slay In Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible by Elizabeth Uviebinené, Yomi Adegoke
4.0
I am not a black girl but I am a black person who is for the most part seen as a black girl so reading this made sense to me.
I really appreciated the interviews and research that went into this book. It was overwhelming at times but genuinely informative and useful. As much as I hate the facts, they’re useful to have and to know. This book is packed with information, statistics, anecdotes and real life experience of what it’s like to be a black girl while also being easy to read and understand. I think often books like this can try to sugar coat things in order to inspire its audience but this book doesn’t do that. It’s truthful but still offers hope. A lot of the examples and people interviewed for the book are that hope which I enjoyed reading. There are so many successful black women!
There was lots to enjoy about Slay in Your Lane as a young black brit. Things felt relatable and it felt like people I know. This is (un)surprisingly one of very few books that have felt like that to me. The interviews were especially great because of the variety of women interviewed.
My only gripe was that I kept waiting for this book to acknowledge the existence of any other intersections black girls & women may experience. There are small mentions of poverty and mental health but not as systemic barriers in the way that blackness and misogyny are mentioned. I acknowledge the authors had their own limitations as there is no universal black girl experience but I thought the interviews were brilliant and could have been a good way of introducing other intersections. Because of this there were 2 chapters I found myself skimming because they were completely irrelevant to me. This is the only thing that let this book down for me. Otherwise it would’ve been 5 stars.
I really appreciated the interviews and research that went into this book. It was overwhelming at times but genuinely informative and useful. As much as I hate the facts, they’re useful to have and to know. This book is packed with information, statistics, anecdotes and real life experience of what it’s like to be a black girl while also being easy to read and understand. I think often books like this can try to sugar coat things in order to inspire its audience but this book doesn’t do that. It’s truthful but still offers hope. A lot of the examples and people interviewed for the book are that hope which I enjoyed reading. There are so many successful black women!
There was lots to enjoy about Slay in Your Lane as a young black brit. Things felt relatable and it felt like people I know. This is (un)surprisingly one of very few books that have felt like that to me. The interviews were especially great because of the variety of women interviewed.
My only gripe was that I kept waiting for this book to acknowledge the existence of any other intersections black girls & women may experience. There are small mentions of poverty and mental health but not as systemic barriers in the way that blackness and misogyny are mentioned. I acknowledge the authors had their own limitations as there is no universal black girl experience but I thought the interviews were brilliant and could have been a good way of introducing other intersections. Because of this there were 2 chapters I found myself skimming because they were completely irrelevant to me. This is the only thing that let this book down for me. Otherwise it would’ve been 5 stars.