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We Were Girls Once

by Aiwanose Odafen (Goodreads Author)

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Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad

by Damilare Kuku

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Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

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acknowledgment of my privilege is not a denial of the ways I have been and am marginalized, the ways I have suffered.

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“The hand squeezing the throat, and the throat itself too.”
― Sharma Taylor, What A Mother's Love Don't Teach You: 'An outstanding debut' Cherie Jones

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“appreciate good things but because life had proved you shouldn’t express too much excitement, in case the goodness got taken away.”
― Sharma Taylor, What A Mother's Love Don't Teach You: 'An outstanding debut' Cherie Jones

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“acknowledgment of my privilege is not a denial of the ways I have been and am marginalized, the ways I have suffered.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

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“maybe trigger warnings allow people to avoid learning how to deal with triggers and getting help.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

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“Respectability politics completely overlook institutional racism and the ways in which the education system, the social welfare system, and the justice system only reinforce many of the problems the black community faces.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

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