Girl Gurl Grrrl, Kenya Hunt
Girl Gurl Grrrl, Kenya Hunt
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Girl Gurl Grrrl
On Womanhood and Belonging in the Age of Black Girl Magic

Author: Kenya Hunt

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

Unabridged: 5 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 12/08/2020


Synopsis

“One of the year’s must-reads.” –ELLE“[A] provocative, heart-breaking, and frequently hilarious collection.” –GLAMOUR“Essential, vital, and urgent.” –HARPER’S BAZAARIn 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.  

About Kenya Hunt

Kenya Hunt is the Fashion Director of Grazia UK. Her career spans working for some of the media world's most influential women’s titles on both sides of the Atlantic from her post-graduate days as an Assistant Editor at the seminal magazine, Jane, to her years as Deputy Editor of ELLE UK. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Evening Standard, Vogue and other publications. And she has made a number of appearances on BBC Woman’s Hour, Sky News and more. An American based in England, she lives south of the river in London with her husband and two sons.

About Funmi Fetto

Funmi Fetto is a London-based journalist and editor and is currently the Style Editor at British Vogue. As a digital and print journalist, she has worked and written for numerous publications and organizations including Glamour.com, Vanity Fair, InStyle, Sunday Times Style, Guardian and Tatler. Funmi is the author of the bestselling book Palette: The Beauty Bible for Women of Colour and a columnist at the Observer. Her work largely intersects across art, beauty, culture, race and identity. 


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lisa on November 23, 2021

I know that I live in a very privileged position purely based on the colour of my skin and so whenever possible I will try to read books by authors or writers who can give me insight into their lived experience so I can at least attempt and possibly begin to understand a world so close yet so separa......more

Goodreads review by P Olatunde on January 31, 2021

Riveting!! From start to finish Kenya had me. I struggled at times to put the book down. Her breakdown of the definition “black woman” and what it means to encompass such a label was powerful. Her experiences as a black woman working and living in an environment where she finds herself a minority was......more

Goodreads review by Sadhbh on January 16, 2021

I loved these essays. The reflections on being a Black American in London and the state of modern activism were particularly interesting for me (as a white Londoner who works in digital media...) and the epilogue on grief and 2020 was really moving. Kenya writes so thoughtfully and passionately. If......more

Goodreads review by Patrice Gonzales on February 19, 2021

I’m not too big on essays but this book had many relatable topics about being a Black woman. From #BlackGirlMagic to Sarah Hemings, our blackness was put in to the spotlight. There were chapters which I couldn’t relate too all that much however it was excellent to see the parallels to women growing......more

Goodreads review by Camryn on October 29, 2024

This book was a good read and the author speaks on the themes in a digestible way. She doesn’t just focus on the struggle of being a Black woman in this society - there’s also a focus on the wonderful aspects of Black womanhood. I also enjoyed the inclusion of essays from other writers.......more