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“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”
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“Black girls are likened more to adults than to children and are treated as if they are willfully engaging in behaviors typically expected of Black women—sexual involvement, parenting or primary caregiving, workforce participation, and other adult behaviors and responsibilities. This compression is both a reflection of deeply entrenched biases that have stripped Black girls of their childhood freedoms and a function of an opportunity-starved social landscape that makes Black girlhood interchangeable with Black womanhood. It gives credence to a widely held perception and a message that there is little difference between the two.”
― Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
― Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
2013 Clutch Reading Challenge
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A place to discuss Clutch Magazine's crowd-sourced 2013 list of 100 books by black women writers that everyone should read. ...more
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Discussing 26a by Diana Evans in honor of Black History Month UK
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