#ActualBlackWomen Highlights The Published Works Of Black Women Authors

Perhaps by now you’ve heard that Rachel Dolezal has written a book. I don’t have to tell you who Rachel Dolezal is. She’s the Trans-Black woman—or the White woman who has always strongly identified with Black culture. But more than that, she identifies as a Black woman. People feel a variety of ways about that, but my opinion is best summed up in this here meme:

Yep

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Furthermore, the fact that Rachel Dolezal managed to get a book deal when there are so many Black women struggling to get published is the ultimate White privilege. That does’t even consider the fact that her book, at one point, was outselling the one written by Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton, a real Black woman about a real oppression Black people face, police brutality. In an effort to support Black women who’ve written and published books, Eve Ewing started the hashtag #ActualBlackWomen to spotlight their accomplishments and stop giving Dolezal any more publicity.

There are #ActualBlackWomen with books out who are deserving of your media, clicks, attention, and purchases.

— wikipedia brown (@eveewing) March 28, 2017

If you have favorite books by #ActualBlackWomen, especially new releases, feel free to share!

— wikipedia brown (@eveewing) March 28, 2017

@VDubShrug is among the group of amazing #ActualBlackWomen with a book called “Bettah Days” https://t.co/tHxVVTMNFH pic.twitter.com/qLgz5stlkp

— D. Nikki (@rae_vans) March 28, 2017

Making a list, checking it twice #ActualBlackWomen pic.twitter.com/HIS1koJczY

— Sarah Doyel (@sarahdoyel) March 28, 2017

#ActualBlackWomen my upcoming Queer Black romance graphic novella https://t.co/zdCPr7j2rv pic.twitter.com/FvNgGUaV12

— Tee Franklin (@MizTeeFranklin) March 28, 2017

"Gemini Moon Rising: A Tale of Two Spirits" by @theauthorlt is an amazing erotic novel#ActualBlackWomen

— Sha-Sha Tiece (@veeeditswrite) March 28, 2017

#ActualBlackWomen pic.twitter.com/FcMzybH7SH

— Brown Girls Out Loud (@BrGrlsOutLoud) March 28, 2017

'The Woman Next Door' @yomotoso, 'The Moor's Account ' by @LailaLalami & ' Longthroat Memoirs ' by @yemisiAA #BlkLitLust #ActualBlackWomen https://t.co/OuvViGeL5h

— Nana Darkoa (@nas009) March 28, 2017

Can't wait to read- "Medical Apartheid" by Harriet Washington & "Ties That Bind"- by Tiya Miles #ActualBlackWomen

— SaraMi90 (@SaraMi90) March 28, 2017

Hey I'll join in - support this dope book by an #ActualBlackWomen @Sil_Lai ! pic.twitter.com/CKU9AI4ge1

— Leslie Mac (@LeslieMac) March 28, 2017

@eveewing it's old but i just read Killing the Black Body and it was amazing. #actualblackwomen

— Erika Stallings (@quidditch424) March 28, 2017

What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day Pearl Cleage Bailey's Cafe Gloria Naylor Breath, Eyes, Memory, Edwidge Danticat #ActualBlackWomen https://t.co/yHzjmtGrAj

— Petty Chicken Wap (@cee_pain) March 28, 2017

So many books by #ActualBlackWomen to recommend, but I find myself captured most recently by @ProfCAnderson's 'White Rage.' Receipts galore. pic.twitter.com/ouoiOWx5Tt

— Toni's Child (@khalfanilawson) March 28, 2017

Another Brooklyn by @JackieWoodson The Hate U Give by @acthomasbooks Difficult Women by @rgay Amazing books, 5/5 stars. #ActualBlackWomen https://t.co/dFP67DXoFO

— Allison Punch (@ajpunch) March 28, 2017

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