num_pages: 336
description: From a fierce and humorous new voice comes a relevant insightful and riveting collection of personal essays on the richness and resilience of black girl culturefor readers of Samantha Irby Roxane Gay Morgan Jerkins and Lindy West. Shayla Lawson is major. You dont know who she is. Yet. But thats okay. She is on a mission to move black girls like herself from best supporting actress to a starring role in the major narrative. Whether shes taking on workplace microaggressions or upending racist stereotypes about her home state of Kentucky she looks for the side of the story that isnt always told the places where the voices of black girls havent been heard.The essays in This is Major ask questions like: Why are black women invisible to AI? What is black girl magic? Or: Am I one viral tweet away from becoming Twitter famous? And: How much magic does it take to land a Tinder date?With a unique mix of personal stories pop culture observations and insights into politics and history Lawson sheds light on these questions as well as the many ways black women and girls have influenced mainstream culturefrom their style to their language and even their artand how major they really are.Timely enlightening and wickedly sharp This Is Major places black women at the centerno longer silenced no longer the minority. 
language: English
title: This Is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope
publisher: Harper Perennial