You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience, by Tarana Burke and Brené Brown.

Favorite essays within: Between Us: A Reckoning With my Mother by Jason Reynolds and Kiese Laymon’s whose title I cannot think of right now. Anything by Kiese is gold in my hands.
Sonya Renee Taylor’s was incredible per usual, and a new favorite quote from Prentis Hemphill: “What are our politics if not the method through which we create and distribute wellness with what we have? What is culture if not our practices of resilience?”

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