num_pages: 256
description: In the vein of Roxane Gays Bad Feminist and Issa Raes The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl but wholly its own a provocative humorous and at times heartbreaking collection of essays on what it means to be black a woman a mother and a global citizen in today's ever-changing world.Black women have never been more visible or more publicly celebrated than they are now. But for every new milestone every magazine cover every box office record smashed every new face elected to public office the reality of everyday life for black women remains a complex conflicted contradiction-laden experience. An American journalist who has been living and working in London for a decade Kenya Hunt has made a career of distilling moments movements and cultural moods into words. Her work takes the difficult and the indefinable and makes it accessible; it is razor sharp cultural observation threaded through evocative and relatable stories.Girl Gurl Grrrl both illuminates our current cultural moment and transcends it. 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. 
language: English
title: Girl Gurl Grrrl: On Womanhood and Belonging in the Age of Black Girl Magic
publisher: Amistad