Black girl magic & other elixirs

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Black girl magic & other elixirs</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> by shantell hinton hill is an important poetry collection about the embodied experiences of a '90s Black girl growing up in the American South and how those experiences shaped her becoming a Black woman. Within shantell recalls moments of playing hide and seek as a means of survival trauma attached to bologna the essence of her mother embodied in a fragrance and even a favorite moment with her first and forever homegirl her grandma. She weaves together stories from her childhood with current events juxtaposing the cultural term 'Black girl magic' with her personal struggles to show how she became the ultimate Renaissance woman who embraces both the magic and the mundane of her surroundings.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>An engineer turned pastor shantell a native of Conway Arkansas situates her work at the intersections of social justice public theology and Black feminism/womanism. shantell builds upon and pays homage to the revolutionary work of Black women authors poets leaders and culture bearers. This collection bears witness to the often unspoken truths about the survival wit and skill Black girls and Black women develop in a world dominated by a myriad of interlocking oppressions. For shantell and Black girls everywhere </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Black girl magic & other elixirs</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> illustrates how justice storytelling ethics and Black women's spirituality weave together on the page to show how we can find ourselves truly in love with who we'd become.</span></p>