Wishing all a beautiful World Mental Health Day today… This book is very important to me. We go through things so others don’t have to, but if we don’t share what we go through then others will not know and learn how to handle similar when it comes. Same for if we keep our coping practices, resources and support needs a secret. Thank you for sharing everything Marita, and I’m happy to follow your lead with my own books even if only fictitiously.
I truly admire how Marita Golden and Mango Publishing worked to make this so important book such a lovely small package, so affordable at just $17.99 for a paperback, accessible to so many for gifts and groups and classrooms. Click this beautiful cover art image, by designer Megan Werner, to order at Mango.
Don’t see The New Black Woman and believe you have to be a Black woman to read it.
Do you know a Black woman? Do you love a Black woman? Do you work with one? Do you ask one to be a good neighbor and water your plants or sit your cat while you travel? Do you have one or more teaching your children, being their second mothers all day in school as their job while you probably make way more money at yours? Do you order from her restaurant and brag on how good her food makes you feel? Do you turn up to her music or use her voice to heal you? Do you laugh at her jokes? Do you have one or a few in your book club, professional group, gym, lecture hall or church pew?
I guarantee you that her experience in this world’s unrequested caste system that put her darkness combined with her sex at the bottom has a struggle for respect, boundaries and money you don’t. This book will help you understand her, come into her shoes, and take her hand.
I recommend The New Black Woman by Marita Golden to all Black women, and to all Black girls who don’t have to be afraid or secretive as prior generations were taught to be, and to all the diverse others we share the world with on this World Mental Health Day.
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