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    This Is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope
    This Is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope
    This Is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope
    Audiobook8 hours

    This Is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope

    Written by Shayla Lawson

    Narrated by Shayla Lawson

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    About this audiobook

    From a fierce and humorous new voice comes a relevant, insightful, and riveting collection of personal essays on the richness and resilience of black girl culture—for readers of Samantha Irby, Roxane Gay, Morgan Jerkins, and Lindy West. 

    Shayla Lawson is major. You don’t know who she is. Yet. But that’s okay. She is on a mission to move black girls like herself from best supporting actress to a starring role in the major narrative. Whether she’s taking on workplace microaggressions or upending racist stereotypes about her home state of Kentucky, she looks for the side of the story that isn’t always told, the places where the voices of black girls haven’t been heard.

    The essays in This is Major ask questions like: Why are black women invisible to AI? What is “black girl magic”? Or: Am I one viral tweet away from becoming Twitter famous? And: How much magic does it take to land a Tinder date?

    With a unique mix of personal stories, pop culture observations, and insights into politics and history, Lawson sheds light on these questions, as well as the many ways black women and girls have influenced mainstream culture—from their style, to their language, and even their art—and how “major” they really are.

    Timely, enlightening, and wickedly sharp, This Is Major places black women at the center—no longer silenced, no longer the minority. 

    Editor's Note

    Big-hearted and empowering…

    Shayla Lawson celebrates the lives, contributions, and resiliency of Black women and girls in this big-hearted, insightful, and deeply personal collection of essays. Funny and fearless, heartbreaking and empowering, “This is Major” takes a sage look at how Black women and girls have left their mark on pop culture and more.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateJun 30, 2020
    ISBN9780062988492
    Author

    Shayla Lawson

    Shayla Lawson grew up in Lexington, Kentucky. She is a professor at Amherst College and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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      Each story is empowering and gives a voice to the experiences of being a Black girl.