Reclaiming a Name. Rind -- Ether -- How to Steal a Culture -- Kings, Queens, and Warriors -- Unbothered: A Microaggression -- D’Homme Americain: How to Emulate a White Man -- A Liberated Black Beauty -- Bodies of Water -- Nine Minutes -- Marginalia -- Flesh -- Black Girl Sabbath -- Me, My Fat, and I -- Thunder Thighs -- Messy: Brief Notes on Body Positivity -- The One Where My Femme Swallows You Whole -- The One Where My Femme Has a Punch -- The One Where My Femme Looks in the Mirror -- The One Where My Femme Brings You Back to Life -- The One Where My Femme Swells -- Interlude: The Part Thugs Skip -- For Your Pleasure -- Marginalia -- Seed -- What Will Follow -- Self-Portrait From the Coroner’s Table -- Ripe -- Contemplating God -- Reclaiming a Name.
Summary:
"Essays at the intersection of race, sexuality, and pop culture that confront Kaudo's experience as a Black woman and ask what it means to own one's Blackness when contemporary white America simultaneously denigrates and appropriates Black culture"-- Provided by publisher
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