Taking Up Space: The Black Girl's Manifesto For Change
'I think we feel a lot of pressure that we have to produce some kind of evidence as to why you feel marginalised, or some sort of statistical data. But if you feel some type of way, it's truth on its own. Your feeling our its own truth.' – Saredo The second book from the #MerkyBooks imprint within William Heinemann, a part of Penguin Random House UK, written by University of Cambridge graduates Chelsea Kwakye and Ore Ogunbiyi is a well written manifesto about the struggle of black women in the education system. The book manages to include varied aspects of racial torment that the two authors, their fourteen interviewees and many like them have experienced, in a relatively short book. It integrates quotes from their interviewees seamlessly and uses them as a springboard for conversation. It has many quotable moments from the start with information that is shocking to read such as the blatant racism from within the University of Cambridge and the struggle to ...