Freeing Black Girls

In <i>Freeing Black Girls</i> Tamura Lomax offers an insurgent feminist love letter to Black girls women mothers and othermothers. Exploring what it means to mother Black children in the twenty-first century Lomax shares her journey from her traditionalist Black girlhood to finding the path to revolutionary Black motherhood. Along the way she shows how all Black people are endangered by white supremacist capitalist heteropatriarchal dominance and emphasizes the power of looking and talking back. Lomax insists on Black feminist ways of living that value and nourish whole persons sketching a radical dream that will allow Black women and girls to survive America while being able to love themselves others and collective Black freedom. Ultimately Lomax declares that Black women and girls are emphatically not defective second-class or immanent nurturers; they are sacred and revolutionary beings who deserve to live a life free of predation patriarchy misrecognition misogynoir and violence.