WeAreTheCity has a dedicated section full of recommended books for your next read. BUY HEREīooks are a great learning resource to enhance your career and aid your learning. This book argues that ultimately feminism, friendship, and faith in one’s own superpowers are all we really need to turn things right side up again. In Brittney Cooper’s world, neither mean girls nor fuckboys ever win. And it took another intervention, this time staged by one of her homegirls, to turn Brittney into the fierce feminist she is today. When Cooper learned of her grandmother’s eloquent rage about love, sex, and marriage in an epic and hilarious front-porch confrontation, her life was changed. It reminds women that they don’t have to settle for less. Short Takes: Provocations on Public Feminism, an open-access feature of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, offers brief comments from prominent feminists about a book that has shaped popular conversations about feminist issues. It’s what makes Michelle Obama an icon.Įloquent rage keeps us all honest and accountable. Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower was published in 2018 by St. It’s what makes Beyonce’s girl power anthems resonate so hard. Black women’s eloquent rage is what makes Serena Williams such a powerful tennis player. In the Black feminist tradition of Audre Lorde, Brittney Cooper reminds us that anger is a powerful source of energy that can give us the strength to keep on fighting.įar too often, Black women’s anger has been caricatured into an ugly and destructive force that threatens the civility and social fabric of American democracy.īut Cooper shows us that there is more to the story than that. So what if it’s true that Black women are mad as hell? They have the right to be.
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