num_pages: 272
description: From funny and fearless entertainment journalist Sesali Bowen Bad Fat Black Girl combines rule-breaking feminist theory witty and insightful personal memoir and cutting cultural analysis for an unforgettable genre-defining debut.Growing up on the south side of Chicago Sesali Bowen learned early on how to hustle stay on her toes and champion other Black women and femmes as she navigated Blackness queerness fatness friendship poverty sex work and self-love. Her love of trap music led her to the top of hip-hop journalism profiling game-changing artists like Megan Thee Stallion Lizzo and Janelle Monae. But despite all the beauty complexity and general badassery she saw Bowen found none of that nuance represented in mainstream feminism. Thus she coined Trap Feminism a contemporary framework that interrogates where feminism and hip-hop intersect.Notes from a Trap Feminist offers a new inclusive feminism for the modern world. Weaving together searing personal essay and cultural commentary Bowen interrogates sexism fatphobia and capitalism all within the context of race and hip-hop. In the process she continues a Black feminist legacy of unmatched sheer determination and creative resilience.Bad bitches: this ones for you.
language: English
title: Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist
publisher: Amistad