This Is Major

From a fierce and humorous new voice comes a relevant, insightful, and riveting collection of personal essays on the richness and resilience of black girl cultureΓÇöfor readers of Samantha Irby, Roxane Gay, Morgan Jerkins, and Lindy West. 
Shayla Lawson is major. You donΓÇÖt know who she is. Yet. But thatΓÇÖs okay. She is on a mission to move black girls like herself from best supporting actress to a starring role in the major narrative. Whether sheΓÇÖs taking on workplace microaggressions or upending racist stereotypes about her home state of Kentucky, she looks for the side of the story that isnΓÇÖt always told, the places where the voices of black girls havenΓÇÖt been heard.
The essays in This is Major ask questions like: Why are black women invisible to AI? What is ΓÇ£black girl magicΓÇ¥? Or: Am I one viral tweet away from becoming Twitter famous? And: How much magic does it take to land a Tinder date?
With a unique mix of personal stories, pop culture observations, and insights into politics and history, Lawson sheds light on these questions, as well as the many ways black women and girls have influenced mainstream cultureΓÇöfrom their style, to their language, and even their artΓÇöand how ΓÇ£majorΓÇ¥ they really are.
Timely, enlightening, and wickedly sharp, This Is Major places black women at the centerΓÇöno longer silenced, no longer the minority.