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    Loud Black Girls: 20 Black Women Writers Ask: What’s Next? (Slay in Your Lane)

    Original price was: $26.99.Current price is: $23.57.

    An important and timely anthology of black British writing, edited and curated by the authors of the highly acclaimed, ground-breaking Slay In Your Lane. Slay in Your Lane Presents: Loud Black Girls features essays from the diverse voices of twenty established and emerging black British writers. ‘I so enjoyed stepping inside the minds of these younger women who have…

  • The Girl with The Smile

    $10.00

    “The Girl with the Smile” is a collection of poems. In its pages you will find the author’s journey towards understanding, acceptance and vulnerability. It is Simply…Beautifully…Human… About the Author Vanessa Chica Ferreira is a New York City writer and performance poet who believes there is strength in vulnerability. As a lover and supporter of…

  • Live Big Girl

    $15.00

    “Live Big Girl” is a Poetic play about 3 women and their different and not so different experiences of living in a body that is not celebrated. There is root deep digging towards self-awareness, Self acceptance, and self-love. Fierceness comes when truths are shared.

  • The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

    $26.27

    “To build a world that works for everyone, we must first make the radical decision to love every facet of ourselves…’The body is not an apology’ is the mantra we should all embrace.” –Kimberlé Crenshaw, legal scholar and founder and Executive Director, African American Policy Forum “Taylor invites us to break up with shame, to deepen our…

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    Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

    Original price was: $28.00.Current price is: $25.20.

    Winner, 2020 Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, given by the American Sociological AssociationHonorable Mention, 2020 Sociology of Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award, given by the American Sociological AssociationHow the female body has been racialized for over two hundred years There is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor black women are particularly…

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    #VERYFAT #VERYBRAVE: The Fat Girl’s Guide to Being #Brave and Not a Dejected, Melancholy, Down-in-the-Dumps Weeping Fat Girl in a Bikini

    Original price was: $19.99.Current price is: $14.78.

    The actress, comedian, and podcaster extraordinaire’s guide to being a #brave, bikini-wearing badass. If you’ve ever seen a fat person post a bikini shot on social media, you already know that they are #verybrave, because apparently existing in a fat body in public is #brave. I, Nicole Byer, wrote this book to 1. share my…

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    Fat Girls in Black Bodies: Creating Communities of Our Own

    Original price was: $16.95.Current price is: $15.49.

    Combatting fatphobia and racism to reclaim a space for womxn at the intersection of fat and Black To be a womxn living in a body at the intersection of fat and Black is to be on the margins. From concern-trolling–“I just want you to be healthy “–to outright attacks, fat Black bodies that fall outside…

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    Love Is an Ex-Country

    Original price was: $26.00.Current price is: $19.50.

    Queer. Muslim. Arab American. A proudly Fat woman. Randa Jarrar is all of these things. In this “viscerally elegant” and “intimately edgy” memoir of a cross-country road trip, she explores how to claim joy in an unraveling and hostile America (Kirkus Reviews). Randa Jarrar is a fearless voice of dissent who has been called “politically…

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    Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim

    Original price was: $24.95.Current price is: $20.49.

    A searingly honest memoir of one young woman’s journey toward self-acceptance as she comes to see her body as a symbol of rebellion and hope and chooses to live her life unapologetically. Ever since she was little, Leah Vernon was told what to believe and how to act. There wasn’t any room for imperfection. Good…

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    The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me

    Original price was: $17.00.Current price is: $14.70.

    From the disability rights advocate and creator of the #DisabledAndCute viral campaign, a thoughtful, inspiring, and charming collection of essays exploring what it means to be black and disabled in a mostly able-bodied white America. Keah Brown loves herself, but that hadn’t always been the case. Born with cerebral palsy, her greatest desire used to…

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    Tonguebreaker

    Original price was: $16.95.Current price is: $13.39.

    In their fourth collection of poetry, Lambda Literary Award-winning poet and writer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha continues her excavation of working-class queer brown femme survivorhood and desire. Tonguebreaker is about surviving the unsurvivable: living through hate crimes, the suicides of queer kin, and the rise of fascism while falling in love and walking through your beloved’s…

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    Corazón

    Original price was: $15.00.Current price is: $11.97.

    Corazón is a love story. It is about the constant hunger for love. It is about feeding that hunger with another person and finding that sometimes it isn’t enough. Salgado creates a world in which the heart can live anywhere; her fat brown body, her parents’ home country, a lover, a toothbrush, a mango, or…

  • Smoke Girl

    $12.00

    Details: Smoke Girl is a study in loss: of body, safety, and identity. It interrogates the simultaneous invisibility and hypervisibility of fat, Black, femme bodies. Instead of forgetting, Simone Person breaks the silences and shame embedded in the murky aftermath of sexual assault, employing the voices of victim, perpetrator, and spectator throughout. Simone Person’s poetry…

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    Your Body Is Not an Apology Workbook: Tools for Living Radical Self-Love

    Original price was: $18.95.Current price is: $15.29.

    On the heels of the breakaway success of The Body Is Not an Apology comes an action guide to help readers practice the art of radical self-love both for themselves and to transform our society. Readers of The Body Is Not an Apology have been clamoring for guidance on how to do the work of…

  • A Phat Ash Christmas

    $10.00

    Indya Priestley hasn’t been to her home town since her mother’s passing on Christmas Eve five years ago. As a writer for Herfland Magazine, it’s her job to introduce readers to the world of cigars. After receiving an invitation to attend her high school crush’s launch party for his new cigar themed t-shirt line, she…

  • The Project: A BBW Romance by Leila Lacey

    $902.81

    After more than a year of fighting cancer, Anastasia Simmons is given a devastating diagnosis. She has only twelve months to live. She decides to spend what precious time she has, enjoying life to the fullest and making a difference. Ana buys a bakery from owners who are going into foreclosure and gifts it back…

  • California Secrets

    $3.99

    Will he still love her every touch… when he finds out who she really is? For years, Ethan Michaels has plotted to reclaim the resort his mother founded. His plan never included a lover…or a pregnancy. But his desire-fueled fling with smart, stunning Harper Williams results in just that. Now he’s getting used to the…

  • Wrapped In A Donovan (The Donovans Book 12)

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    ‘Tis the season to fall in love… Jenise Langley has always been known in her family as “Ms. Independent”. A seasoned trial attorney now managing the Miami branch of the prestigious Langley Law firm, she’s all about taking care of herself and her business. Until Savian Donovan walks into her office and opens the door…

  • Glutton for Pleasure (The Pleasure Series)

    $14.99

    They’re craving something sweet. She likes it spicy. Devi Malik knows how to heat things up. She does it every night as head chef in her family’s Indian restaurant. Her love life, though, is stuck in the subzero freezer. Now, with a chance to fulfill a secret fantasy with her long-time crush and his brother,…

  • I Promise

    $16.95

    Catherine Hernandez’s debut novel Scarborough was shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award, the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, and the Trillium Prize, Ontario’s richest literary award. Her latest, I Promise, is a beautiful tribute to the resiliency of diverse families. Featuring tender-hearted illustrations by renowned artist Syrus Marcus Ware, I Promise captures with love…

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    Ho’onani: Hula Warrior

    Original price was: $17.99.Current price is: $13.69.

    An empowering celebration of identity, acceptance and Hawaiian culture based on the true story of a young girl in Hawaiʻi who dreams of leading the boys-only hula troupe at her school. Ho’onani feels in-between. She doesn’t see herself as wahine (girl) OR kane (boy). She’s happy to be in the middle. But not everyone sees…

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    Watch Us Rise

    Original price was: $18.99.Current price is: $13.24.

    Award-winning author Renée Watson teams up with poet Ellen Hagan in this YA feminist anthem about raising your voice.Jasmine and Chelsea are best friends on a mission–they’re sick of the way women are treated even at their progressive NYC high school, so they decide to start a Women’s Rights Club. They post their work online–poems,…

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    Some Places More Than Others

    Original price was: $16.99.Current price is: $8.49.

    From Newbery Honor- and Coretta Scott King Author Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Renée Watson comes a heartwarming and inspiring novel for middle schoolers about finding deep roots and exploring the past, the present, and the places that make us who we are. All Amara wants for her birthday is to visit her father’s…

  • Dactyl Hill Squad

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    “An unforgettable historical, high-octane adventure.” — Dav Pilkey, author-illustrator of the Dog Man series It’s 1863 and dinosaurs roam the streets of New York as the Civil War rages between raptor-mounted armies down South. Magdalys Roca and her friends from the Colored Orphan Asylum are on a field trip when the Draft Riots break out,…

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    Like a Love Story

    Original price was: $17.99.Current price is: $8.29.

    Stonewall Honor Book! “A love letter to queerness, self-expression, and individuality (also Madonna) that never shies away from the ever-present fear within the queer community of late ’80s New York, Like a Love Story made me feel so full—of hope, love, courage, pride, and awe for the many people who fought for love and self-expression…