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    Taking Up Space: The Black Girl's Manifesto for Change

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    ISBN: 9781529118544
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    AuthorKwakye, Chelsea
    Pub Date27/02/2020
    BindingPaperback
    Pages256
    Publisher: CORNERSTONE, HUTCHINSON HEINEMANN (RHP GROUP)
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    THE FLAGSHIP 2019 RELEASE OF #MERKY BOOKS____________________________'Brilliant' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS'Hugely important' PAULA AKPAN'Essential' BERNARDINE EVARISTO____________________________As a minority in a predominantly white institution, taking up space is an act of resistance.

    THE FLAGSHIP 2019 RELEASE OF #MERKY BOOKS
    ____________________________
    'Brilliant' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS
    'Hugely important' PAULA AKPAN
    'Essential' BERNARDINE EVARISTO
    ____________________________
    As a minority in a predominantly white institution, taking up space is an act of resistance. Recent Cambridge grads Chelsea and Ore experienced this first-hand, and wrote Taking Up Space as a guide and a manifesto for change.

    FOR BLACK GIRLS:

    Understand that your journey is unique. Use this book as a guide. Our wish for you is that you read this and feel empowered, comforted and validated in every emotion you experience, or decision that you make.

    FOR EVERYONE ELSE:

    We can only hope that reading this helps you to be a better friend, parent, sibling or teacher to black girls living through what we did. It's time we stepped away from seeing this as a problem that black people are charged with solving on their own.

    It's a collective effort.
    And everyone has a role to play.

    Featuring honest conversations with students past and present, Taking Up Space goes beyond the buzzwords of diversity and inclusion and explores what those words truly mean for young black girls today.
    ____________________________
    #Merky Books was set up by publishers Penguin Random House and Stormzy in June 2018 to find and publish the best writers of a new generation and to publish the stories that are not being heard. #Merky Books aims to open up the world of publishing, and this year has launched a New Writer's Prize and will soon be launching a #Merky Books traineeship.

    'I know too many talented writers that don't always have an outlet or a means to get their work seen, and hopefully #Merky Books can now be a reference point for them to say "I can be an author", and for that to be a realistic and achievable goal... Reading and writing as a kid were integral to where I am today and I, from the bottom of my heart, cannot wait to hear your stories and get them out into the big wide world.'
    STORMZY