BLACK GIRL NO MAGIC EB
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BLACK GIRL NO MAGIC EB

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eBook - ePub

BLACK GIRL NO MAGIC EB

About this book

'This book is a glowing achievement by one of the best essayists of her generation' Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff

'Witty, fresh and full of life' Liv Little

'I can't recommend more highly… it's one of those books that I just want to press in the hands of everybody' Damian Barr, Literary Salon Podcast

Kimberly McIntosh has lived a full life, with a loving family, messy friendships, mind-expanding travel and all-night parties. She's also spent that life wondering why such opportunities aren't always available to people who look like her.

Stemming from years of social policy research and campaign work, this essay collection brings together all that Kimberly has learned; whether that's dismantling the myth of social mobility for those who toe the line, to understanding why her teenage Facebook posts are quite so cringe. In it, she uses her own experiences to reveal how systematic injustice impacts us all, from the pressure of nuclear families, to enduring toxic friendships, to how painful it can be to watch Love Island.

Perfect for fans of Slay In Your Lane, Trick Mirror, and Bad Feminist, this dazzling debut collection brilliantly melds the personal and political to not only tell the story of a life, but what that life might teach us.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 Mental health memoirs: GP’s office, South London
  9. 2 Middle-class safari
  10. 3 Dispatches from my gap year travel diary: part one, aged nineteen
  11. 4 The right kind of family
  12. 5 Dispatches from my gap year travel diary: part two, aged nineteen
  13. 6 Is she hot or is she just blonde?
  14. 7 Awkward sexual awakening: the queen of casual sex
  15. 8 Fear and loathing on a Hackney Downs mattress
  16. 9 My teens and twenties told primarily through our Facebook updates
  17. 10 Twenty-four-hour party people
  18. 11 A guide to drug taking
  19. 12 But you have Beyoncé! On race and friendship
  20. 13 How to find a flatmate
  21. 14 Atheism? Faith in the black community
  22. 15 Mental health memoirs: therapy
  23. Footnotes
  24. Endnotes
  25. Acknowledgements
  26. About the Author
  27. About the Publisher