Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap FeministGrowing 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

prominent Black women reflect on self-love and healing

hide their light

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while also exploring the many facets of violence: how it persists within us

But life has gotten lonely over the years

we can end police brutality and heal as a country

Now Vivian has scored a once-in-a-lifetime offer from a talent manager

Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters

Brit Bennett produces a story that is at once a riveting