I would like to share a Self-Help book with you this morning. All the Black Girls Are Activists: A Fourth Wave Womanist Pursuit of Dreams as Radical Resistance by EbonyJanice I received a copy of in exchange for this review.
Being a white woman, I wasn’t sure how I could relate to a book about black activists. Let me tell you as I began to read the story, I felt closet to the Author than I have in a long time. I even learned a new word “womansim” and what it meant in regard to black women, but the description fit me to a tee.
All the Black Girls Are Activists: brought clarity back into my life and I knew no, matter what happened just like the Author I could and would be able to handle it. Throughout All the Black Girls Are Activists I even saw parts of David and Charlie even though the book is about black activists. I sat down and shared the book with them. Charlie, David and I read a couple chapters as a family.
We sat aside All the Black Girls Are Activists: to finish reading in our Homeschool Reading Class and Charlie also said it would be a nice addition to our Health Class. Would you like to join us as we read the book together? Which is perfect for women from high school and up. If your in or know of a book club I wish you would recommend this book to the creators as its a perfect Girls Club books.
About:
“Who would black women get to be if we did not have to create from a place of resistance?”
Hip Hop Womanist writer and theologian EbonyJanice’s book of essays center a fourth wave of Womanism, dreaming, the pursuit of softness, ancestral reverence, and radical wholeness as tools of liberation.
All The Black Girls Are Activists is a love letter to Black girls and Black women, asking and attempting to offer some answers to “Who would black women get to be if we did not have to create from a place of resistance?” by naming Black women’s wellness, wholeness, and survival as the radical revolution we have been waiting for.
About the Author: EbonyJanice
A dynamic lecturer, transformational speaker, passionate multi-faith preacher, and creative focused on Decolonizing Authority, Hip Hop Scholarship, Womanism as a Political and Spiritual/Religious tool for Liberation, Blackness as Religion, Dialogue as central to professional development and personal growth, and Women and Gender Studies focused on black girlhood.
EbonyJanice holds a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology and Political Science and a Master of Arts in Social Change with a concentration in Spiritual Leadership, Womanist Theology, and Racial Justice. She is the founder of Black Girl Mixtape, a multi-platform safe think-space centering the intellectual and creative authority of black women in the form of a lecture series, an online learning institute, and a creative collaborative.
EbonyJanice is also the founder of Dream Yourself Free, a Spiritual Mentoring project focused on black women’s healing, dreaming, ease, play, and wholeness as their activism and resistance work.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
