Bøger af Shayla Lawson

"Poet and journalist Shayla Lawson follows their National Book Critics Circle finalist. This Is Major with these daring and exquisitely crafted essays, where Lawson journeys across the globe, finds beauty in tumultuous times, and powerfully disrupts the constraints of race, gender, and disability. With their signature prose, at turns bold, muscular, and luminous, Shayla Lawson travels the world to explore deeper meanings held within love, time, and the self. Through encounters with a gorgeous gondolier in Venice, an ex-husband in the Netherlands, and a lost love on New Year's Eve in Mexico City, Lawson's travels bring unexpected wisdom about life in and out of love. They learn the strength of friendships and the dangers of beauty during a narrow escape in Egypt. They examine Blackness in post-dictatorship Zimbabwe, then take us on a secretive tour of Black freedom movements in Portugal. Through a deeply insightful journey, Lawson leads readers from a castle in France to a hula hoop competition in Jamaica to a traditional theater in Tokyo to a Prince concert in Minnesota and, finally, to finding liberation on a beach in Bermuda, exploring each location-and their deepest emotions-to the fullest. In the end, they discover how the trials of marriage, grief, and missed connections can lead to self-transformation and unimagined new freedoms."--

Named one of the most anticipated books of the year by USA Today, Bitch Magazine, Parade, Salon and Ms. MagazineFrom a fierce and humorous new voice comes a relevant, insightful, and riveting collection of personal essays on the richness and resilience of black girl culturefor readers of Samantha Irby, Roxane Gay, Morgan Jerkins, and Lindy West.Shayla Lawson is major. You dont know who she is. Yet. But thats 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 shes taking on workplace microaggressions or upending racist stereotypes about her home state of Kentucky, she looks for the side of the story that isnt always told, the places where the voices of black girls havent been heard.The essays inThis 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 culturefrom their style, to their language, and even their artand how major they really are. Timely, enlightening, and wickedly sharp, This Is Major places black women at the centerno longer silenced, no longer the minority.