![]() Sesali perfectly vocalizes the inner dialogue, and daily mantras needed to be a Bad Bitch.” - Gabourey Sidibe, actor, director, and author of This is Just My Face: Try Not To Stare The duality of being from the hood, and educated and valuable in ways most people find contradictory a feminist, who doesn't need a man, but wants to be wanted because Bad Bitches need love too. “Sesali is one of my favorite voices because of her truth, that somehow seems to be my own truth. “Bowen writes from an authentic space for Black women who are often left out of feminist conversations due to respectability politics, but who are just as deserving of the same voice and liberation.” - Booklist (starred review) “This is a powerful call for a more inclusive and “real” feminism.” - Publishers Weekly (starred review) Praise For Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist… ![]() In the process, she continues a Black feminist legacy of unmatched sheer determination and creative resilience. Weaving together searing personal essay and cultural commentary, Bowen interrogates sexism, fatphobia, and capitalism all within the context of race and hip-hop. Thus, she coined Trap Feminism, a contemporary framework that interrogates where feminism meets today's hip-hop.īad Fat Black Girl offers a new, inclusive feminism for the modern world. But despite all the beauty, complexity, and general badassery she saw, Bowen found none of that nuance represented in mainstream feminism. Her love of trap music led her to the top of hip-hop journalism, profiling game-changing artists like Megan Thee Stallion, Lizzo, and Janelle Monae. ![]() Growing up on the south side of Chicago, Sesali Bowen learned early on how to hustle, stay on her toes, and champion other Black women and femmes as she navigated Blackness, queerness, fatness, friendship, poverty, sex work, and self-love. “Bowen writes from an authentic space for Black women who are often left out of feminist conversations due to respectability politics, but who are just as deserving of the same voice and liberation.” -Booklist (starred review)įrom funny and fearless entertainment journalist Sesali Bowen, Bad Fat Black Girl combines rule-breaking feminist theory, witty and insightful personal memoir, and cutting cultural analysis for an unforgettable, genre-defining debut. “A powerful call for a more inclusive and 'real' feminism.”- Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Sesali perfectly vocalizes the inner dialogue, and daily mantras needed to be a Bad Bitch.”-Gabourey Sidibe, actor, director, and author of This is Just My Face: Try Not To Stare Carruthers, activist and author of Unapologetic: A Black, Queer and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements I and so many Black girls still figuring out who they are in this world will gain so much from whatever she has to say.”-Charlene A. Her trendsetting writing and commentary reaches across experiences and beyond respectability. “Sesali Bowen is poised to give Black feminism the rejuvenation it needs.
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