Thu, Jan 27
|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-iPgOgTdAE
Breath Better Spent Living Black Girlhood: A Book Release w/ Author Dr. DaMaris Hill Featuring Glory Edim
Join us for the book release of BREATH WELL SPENT, a powerful new narrative in verse from the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing , Dr. Damaris Hill. She will be in conversation with Well-Read Black Girl Founder, Golry Edim.
Time & Location
Jan 27, 2022, 7:00 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-iPgOgTdAE
Guests
About The Event
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About the Book:
In Breath Better Spent, DaMaris B. Hill hoists her childhood self onto her shoulders, together taking in the landscape of Black girlhood in America. At a time when Black girls across the country are increasingly vulnerable to unjust violence, unwarranted incarceration, and unnoticed disappearance, Hill chooses to celebrate and protect the girl she carries, using the narrative-in-verse style of her acclaimed book A Bound Woman is a Dangerous Thing to revisit her youth. There, jelly sandals, Double Dutch beats, and chipped nail polish bring the breath of laughter; in adolescence, pomegranate lips, turntables, and love letters to other girls' boyfriends bring the breath of longing. Yet these breaths cannot be taken alone, and as she carries her childhood self through the broader historical space of Black girls in America, Hill is forced to grapple with expression in a space of stereotype, desire in a space of hyper-sexuality, joy in a space of heartache.