This Is Major, Shayla Lawson
This Is Major, Shayla Lawson
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This Is Major
Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope

Author: Shayla Lawson

Narrator: Shayla Lawson

Unabridged: 8 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 06/30/2020


Synopsis

From a fierce and humorous new voice comes a relevant, insightful, and riveting collection of personal essays on the richness and resilience of black girl culture—for readers of Samantha Irby, Roxane Gay, Morgan Jerkins, and Lindy West. Shayla Lawson is major. You don’t know who she is. Yet. But that’s okay. She is on a mission to move black girls like herself from best supporting actress to a starring role in the major narrative. Whether she’s taking on workplace microaggressions or upending racist stereotypes about her home state of Kentucky, she looks for the side of the story that isn’t always told, the places where the voices of black girls haven’t been heard.
The essays in This is Major ask questions like: Why are black women invisible to AI? What is “black girl magic”? Or: Am I one viral tweet away from becoming Twitter famous? And: How much magic does it take to land a Tinder date?With a unique mix of personal stories, pop culture observations, and insights into politics and history, Lawson sheds light on these questions, as well as the many ways black women and girls have influenced mainstream culture—from their style, to their language, and even their art—and how “major” they really are.Timely, enlightening, and wickedly sharp, This Is Major places black women at the center—no longer silenced, no longer the minority. 

About Shayla Lawson

Shayla Lawson grew up in Lexington, Kentucky. She is a professor at Amherst College and lives in Brooklyn, New York.


Reviews

Goodreads review by chantel

This book was a love letter to the dopeness of black women and girls. I didn’t really know what to expect when I picked up this book — I wasn’t sure if it was going to be highbrow and educational, if it was gonna get real and gully with me. I didn’t have any preconceived ideas about what I thought t......more

This book is for the little girl who deserves a story in which a girl like her isn’t concerned with being whipped or singing hymns or taking the moral high ground, because she is actually free. In Shayla Lawson's collection she addresses a lot issues black women face in their daily interaction. If......more