Badass Black Girl: Quotes, Questions, and Affirmations for Teens (Gift for teenage girl)
208Badass Black Girl: Quotes, Questions, and Affirmations for Teens (Gift for teenage girl)
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Overview
“This book is a celebration, an affirmation, a history text, a little bit of memoir, and an exuberant prayer for the prosperity of Black women.”―Ashley M. Jones, author of Magic City Gospel
Publishers Weekly Select Title for Young Readers
2021 In the Margins Book Award Winner, Top Title for YA Nonfiction
#1 Best Seller and Gift Idea in Teen & Young Adult Cultural Heritage Biographies
Affirmations for strong, fearless Black girls. Wisdom from Badass Black female trailblazers who accomplished remarkable things in literature, entertainment, STEM, politics and law, sports and more.
Explore the many facets of your identity through hundreds of big and small questions. In this affirmations book created for Black girls, M.J. Fievre tackles topics such as family and friends, school and careers, body image, and stereotypes. By reflecting on these themes, you confront the issues that can hold you back from discovering your inner Black joy.
Embrace authenticity and celebrate who you are. Finding the courage to live as you are is not easy, so here’s a book designed to help you nurture creativity and positive self-awareness.
Change the way you view the world. This affirmations book provides words of encouragement focused on Black joy to inspire and ignite discussion. You are growing up in a world that tries to tell you how to look and act. Fight the flow and determine for yourself who you want to be.
Badass Black Girl helps you to:
- Build and boost your self-esteem with powerful, positive affirmations
- Learn more about yourself through insightful journaling prompts
- Become confident in your authentic Black girl self
If books for teens like Black Girl, White School; This Book is Antiracist or Well-Read Black Girl have interested you, then Badass Black Girl should be the next book you read. Also, be sure to check out M.J. Fievre’s Empowered Black Girl (2021) and Resilient Black Girl (2021)!
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781684812738 |
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Publisher: | Mango Media |
Publication date: | 08/22/2023 |
Series: | Badass Black Girl |
Pages: | 208 |
Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.75(d) |
Age Range: | 12 - 16 Years |
About the Author
A long-time educator and frequent keynote speaker (Tufts University, Massachusetts; Howard University, Washington, D.C.; the University of Miami, Florida; and Michael College, Vermont; and a panelist at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference, AWP), M.J. is available for book club meetings, podcast presentations, interviews and other author events. You can learn more about her and her work at her website: mjfievre.com
Table of Contents
You Are a True Warrior 12
You Have a Lot Going for You 14
Yeah…You're Awesome! 17
One, Two, Three…Yoio! 20
Easy Enough? 22
What You're Up Against 25
8 Badass Trailblazers in Entertainment (1900-1969) 26
What Are You Doing Well? 30
What You're Up Against 34
9 Badass Trailblazers in Politics and Law (1930-1979) 35
What Have You Done Well in the Past? 38
What You're Up Against 40
9 Badass Trailblazers in STEM 42
Some Introspection 44
Change the Point of View 47
Think About It 49
Reverse the Tread 51
What You're Up Against 53
10 Badass Trailblazers in Sports 54
When It Rains, It Pours: Other Strategies to Discover Your Talents 58
What You're Up Against 60
5 Badass Trailblazers in Spirituality 61
More of These Strategies 63
What You're Up Against 65
7 Badass Trailblazers on the Road and in the Air 66
Wonder. Ask. About Big Things. About Little Things. 68
What You're Up Against 70
8 (More) Badass Trailblazers in Entertainment (1970-1989) 71
Do Away with Fear 73
10 Tips for Overcoming Fear 78
What You're Up Against 81
Think About It! 82
9 (More) Badass Trailblazers in Politics and Law(1980-2009) 83
What You Could Do Next 85
Project Yourself in the Future 87
What You're Up Against 90
6 (More) Badass Trailblazers in Entertainment (1990-2009) 91
Keep an Open Mind 93
Create Your Own Experience 96
Think About It 98
What You're Up Against 100
30 Days of Purpose 101
5 Badass Trailblazers in Literature 105
Go Be Brilliant! 107
What You're Up Against 109
7 Badass Trailblazers in Education 110
Embrace Your Imperfection 112
What You're Up Against 117
7 Badass Trailblazers in the Military and Government Services 119
Use Your Mistakes to Grow and Flourish 121
Narcissist Much? 123
Think About It: Where Are You Now? 125
What You're Up Against 128
4 Badass Trailblazer Activists 130
You Rock on a Phenomenal Level 131
How to Embrace Your Imperfection 133
What You're Up Against 138
3 (More) Badass Trailblazers in Entertainment (2000-Now) 140
The Badass Black Girl's Movie List 141
Come as You Are 142
Focus Your Attention 143
What You're Up Against 146
Reasons to Love Being a Black Girl 147
The Beauty of Just Being You 150
An Exercise in Self-Acceptance 151
What You're Up Against 155
15 Upbeat Songs for Blue Days 157
6 (More) Badass Black Women in STEM 158
Focus on the Positive 159
What You're Up Against 166
The Badass Black Girl Playlist 167
6 (More) Badass Trailblazers in Politics and Law (2010-NOW) 171
Think About It 172
Do Not Underestimate Your Ability to Bounce Back 174
What You're Up Against 177
3 Badass Trailblazers in Business 180
How to Bounce Back 182
Turn Your Setbacks into Success 185
What Are You Up Against? 190
Think About It: Are You Too Woke? 191
Practice Gratitude 193
30 Days of Gratitude 201
Life Is Pretty Badass 204
About the Author 205
What People are Saying About This
"You'll come away from Badass Black Girl feeling as if you've known the author your entire life, and it's a rare feat for any writer." ―"Mike, the Poet," author of Dear Woman and The Boyfriend Book.
“Protecting our young Black women and femme-identifying youth is so important―M.J. Fievre lays this out with grace, care, and the most powerful love in the phenomenal Badass Black Girl. So often, our society tells us that we’re so strong, so resilient, so able to fix everyone else’s world―this book reveals the truth: Black women/femme-identifying people are just as tender, just as in need of affirmation and praise, just as worthy of an embrace from self and from those around us. This book is a celebration, an affirmation, a history text, a little bit of memoir, and an exuberant prayer for the prosperity of Black women.” ―Ashley M. Jones, author of Magic City Gospel
“Badass Black Girl is the big hug you need. M.J. Fievre’s newest work is a glorious love letter to the Black women who have shaped and loved us, to our griots and groundbreakers. Within these pages, Fievre celebrates Black girls in all of their power, vulnerability, and beauty and offers instructions for self-love, taking responsibility, creating art, and expressing gratitude. I wish I had this book when I was younger, and I’m happy I have it now.” ―Jennifer Maritza McCauley, author of SCAR ON/SCAR OFF