Taking up space : the black girl's manifesto for change

By:

Kwakye, Chelsea

Contributor(s):

Ogunbiyi, Ore

Publication details: London : #Merky Books, 2019Description: xv, 294pISBN:

9781529118537

Subject(s):

Summary: As a minority in a predominantly white institution, taking up space is an act of resistance. Recent Cambridge grads Chelsea and Ore experienced this first-hand, and wrote Taking Up Space as a guide and a manifesto for change. FOR BLACK GIRLS: Understand that your journey is unique. Use this book as a guide. Our wish for you is that you read this and feel empowered, comforted and validated in every emotion you experience, or decision that you make. FOR EVERYONE ELSE: We can only hope that reading this helps you to be a better friend, parent, sibling or teacher to black girls living through what we did. It's time we stepped away from seeing this as a problem that black people are charged with solving on their own. It's a collective effort. And everyone has a role to play. Featuring honest conversations with students past and present, Taking Up Space goes beyond the buzzwords of diversity and inclusion and explores what those words truly mean for young black girls today.

List(s) this item appears in: SLaM Library Black History Month and anti-racism books | SLaM Library books for International Women’s Day and beyond | SLAM Anti-Racism Reading List | SLaM Library Celebrating Black Women Books (Black History Month 2023) | RMH Black History Month 2023

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Book	David Adams Library (Royal Marsden) Wellbeing		KWA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available
Book	South London and Maudsley Trust Library Shelves	People & planet	ZZ 3 KWA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		023334

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As a minority in a predominantly white institution, taking up space is an act of resistance. Recent Cambridge grads Chelsea and Ore experienced this first-hand, and wrote Taking Up Space as a guide and a manifesto for change.

FOR BLACK GIRLS:

Understand that your journey is unique. Use this book as a guide. Our wish for you is that you read this and feel empowered, comforted and validated in every emotion you experience, or decision that you make.

FOR EVERYONE ELSE:

We can only hope that reading this helps you to be a better friend, parent, sibling or teacher to black girls living through what we did. It's time we stepped away from seeing this as a problem that black people are charged with solving on their own.

It's a collective effort.
And everyone has a role to play.

Featuring honest conversations with students past and present, Taking Up Space goes beyond the buzzwords of diversity and inclusion and explores what those words truly mean for young black girls today.

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