This audiobook argues that ultimately feminism, friendship, and faith in one's own superpowers are all we really need to turn things right side up again. In Brittney Cooper's world, neither mean girls nor fuckboys ever win. And it took another intervention, this time staged by one of her homegirls, to turn Brittney into the fierce feminist she is today. When Cooper learned of her grandmother's eloquent rage about love, sex, and marriage in an epic and hilarious front-porch confrontation, her life was changed. It reminds women that they don't have to settle for less. It's what makes Michelle Obama an icon.Įloquent rage keeps us all honest and accountable. It's what makes Beyoncé's girl power anthems resonate so hard. Black women's eloquent rage is what makes Serena Williams such a powerful tennis player. But Cooper shows us that there is more to the story than that. In the Black feminist tradition of Audre Lorde, Brittney Cooper reminds us that anger is a powerful source of energy that can give us the strength to keep on fighting.įar too often, Black women's anger has been caricatured into an ugly and destructive force that threatens the civility and social fabric of American democracy. So what if it's true that Black women are mad as hell? They have the right to be. With searing honesty, intimacy and humor too, America's leading young black feminist celebrates the power of rage in this piercing new audiobook. Listeners learn how rage, aimed with fine-tuned focus and purpose, can help build up black women's lives and society overall." - AudioFile Magazine She blends candor and humor as she roots out toxic behaviors and beliefs we use in America to tear ourselves and each other down, while also offering paths forward. I had always assumed that men didn’t want to date me because I was too outspoken.".Cooper delivers a frank, conversational-style examination of the importance of black female friendships, respectability politics, and harmful stereotypes, among other topics. I had gone through college without having even one boyfriend, which made me feel like something was wrong with me. They have created this kind of alchemy that uses their physical strength and strategic prowess on the court, together with all the racial slurs and insults they have endured over the years, to create something that looks magical to the rest of us. The sisters have figured out how to corral all that power into precise serves and shots that are nearly unmatched. I have always been a feminist, and I have always carried around Audre Lorde’s book Sister Outsider like it was the feminist bible. I have used my anger to help others, but I have also had to learn how to control it. We understand what it means to love ourselves in a world that hates us, and we know what it means to do a lot with very little. We have been dreaming of freedom and carving out spaces for liberation since we arrived on these shores. Black women use sass to express their anger, but they are often dismissed as irrational, crazy, and out of touch.īlack women have the right to be angry. Insights from Chapter 12 Insights from Chapter 1Īmerica loves sassy Black women, but sass is just a more palatable form of rage. #4 The sisters have figured out how to corral all that power into precise serves and shots that are nearly unmatched. #3 I have used my anger to help others, but I have also had to learn how to control it. #2 Black women have the right to be angry. Black women use sass to express their anger, but they are often dismissed as irrational, crazy, and out of touch. #1 America loves sassy Black women, but sass is just a more palatable form of rage. Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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