Girl Gurl Grrrl

On Womanhood and Belonging in the Age of Black Girl Magic

By: Kenya Hunt

Narrated by: Kenya Hunt, Ebele Okobi, Jessica Horn, Funmi Fetto, Amanda Bright

“One of the year’s must-reads.” –ELLE

“[A] provocative, heart-breaking, and frequently hilarious collection.” –GLAMOUR

“Essential, vital, and urgent.” –HARPER’S BAZAAR

In the vein of Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist and Issa Rae’s The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, but wholly its own, a provocative, humorous, and, at times, heartbreaking collection of essays on what it means to be black, a woman, a mother, and a global citizen in today's ever-changing world.

Black women have never been more visible or more publicly celebrated than they are now. But for every new milestone, every magazine cover, every box office record smashed, every new face elected to public office, the reality of everyday life for black women remains a complex, conflicted, contradiction-laden experience.

An American journalist who has been living and working in London for a decade, Kenya Hunt has made a career of distilling moments, movements, and cultural moods into words. Her work takes the difficult and the indefinable and makes it accessible; it is razor sharp cultural observation threaded through evocative and relatable stories.

Girl Gurl Grrrl both illuminates our current cultural moment and transcends it. Hunt captures the zeitgeist while also creating a timeless celebration of womanhood, of blackness, and the possibilities they both contain. She blends the popular and the personal, the frivolous and the momentous in a collection that truly reflects what it is to be living and thriving as a black woman today.

Great Listen

I loved this book. Kenya, as well as the other ladies, shared amazing stories and experiences about what it means to be black person anywhere in the world. Many names of people, some of which I knew and some I didn’t, and their journeys that were shared sparked my interest in researching and diving deeper into current events that are happening to minorities. I recommend this book to any one who want insight on the black experience. This book is it. It is captured so beautifully and fell so easily on my ears. Definitely a must read.

Inspired

I loved it..picked it for my book club read for this month and the Sistahs loved it too

For women who have identity challenges

This books target is black women who struggle in their blackness , or may be in roles that is not “meant” for us. It’s also speaks on biracial women who struggle to balance being a black woman & their other race. It touches also on raising black sons .

Amazing!

This book was well written, a story beautifully told through essays. I’m literally happy that Kenya walk us through Black Girl Magic, it’s relatable, informing, and touching. We read this for my book club and I must say it’s everything a black girl ever dreamed of; so good that girls and boys of all races can enjoy!

if your a black girl who rocks

this was the very thing I needed to remind me of my power and my purpose.