Slay In Your Lane
The Black Girl Bible
by Yomi Adegoke; Elizabeth Uviebinené
This title was previously available on NetGalley and is now archived.
Send NetGalley books directly to your Kindle or Kindle app
1
To read on a Kindle or Kindle app, please add kindle@netgalley.com as an approved email address to receive files in your Amazon account. Click here for step-by-step instructions.
2
Also find your Kindle email address within your Amazon account, and enter it here.
Pub Date 5 Jul 2018 | Archive Date 24 Sep 2018
HarperCollins UK, 4th Estate | Fourth Estate
Description
FEATURED IN THE OBSERVER’S 18 FOR 2018
The long-awaited, inspirational guide to life for a generation of black British women inspired to make lemonade out of lemons, and find success in every area of their lives.
Black British women in 2018 are well past making waves – we’re currently creating something of a tsunami. From authors to politicians, to entrepreneurs to artists, black women in the UK continue to thrive against all odds and well outside of the world’s expectations. Women who look like us, grew up in similar places to us, talk like us, are shaping almost every societal sector, from the bottom and, finally, from all the way up at the top
‘The love child of exasperation and optimism’, Slay in Your Lane springs from best friends Yomi and Elizabeth’s search for a book that would address the uniquely challenging experiences faced by black women today. From education, to work, to dating, to representation, money and health, they explore the ways in which being black and female affects each of these areas – and offer advice and encouragement on how to navigate them.
Illustrated with stories from Yomi and Elizabeth’s own lives, and from interviews with dozens of the most successful black women in Britain – including Amma Asante, Charlene White, Jamelia, Denise Lewis, Malorie Blackman and Dawn Butler MP – this provocative, honest and uplifting book recognizes and celebrates the strides black British women have already made, whilst providing practical advice and inspiration for those who want to do the same and forge a better, visible future.
With a foreword by Karen Blackett (OBE)
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9780008235611 |
| PRICE | £2.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 272 |
Featured Reviews
Ailsa D, Librarian
This book is brilliant and so timely - but don’t listen to me, I’m just some random white girl. Listen to Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uviebinené and all the amazing black women interviewed for this book about growing up as a black girl in Britain today. Incredibly well researched, covering topics from education to dating, this really is a bible. I’m honoured to have been able to read it and be thoroughly educated on issues I don’t know enough about. It should be a handbook in every high school classroom.
(I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review)
Zeba T, Reviewer
A much needed book for young women of colour, it's great to know that this book now exists and will be helping build the confidence and careers so many women.
Onyeka O, Reviewer
I was so ready to learn how to “Slay in your lane”, but this took me by surprise. It reads more like a Sociology thesis.
“You’re black and you’re female, you have to try twice as hard as anyone else”
I guess the saying about not judging a book by its cover couldn’t be any more accurate for SIYL. Coated in bubblegum pink and scarlet red, with those beautiful and accomplished young black females plastered on the cover, I expected something more light-hearted and “fun”. Instead, the decisions I thought I (as a young black female) had made about my career path, interests & just about everything else, was challenged. I started to identify nuances in upbringing, socialisation, conversations...to do with race, gender, and class.
“We are tattooed with our otherness...hypervisible in predominantly white spaces”
I feel like I can see clearer now, and drop a line from SIYL in just about every policy conversation abou protected characteristics, differential attainment, access rights and issues for minority groups, etc.
I think SIYL achieved its goal of showing this black female that “there is no limit to the roles [I] can carve for [myself] in the world”. Thank you Yomi and Elizabeth
Readers who liked this book also liked:
