Freeing Black Girls

“Freeing Black Girls is an honest reckoning with one of our most sacred institutions—motherhood. Tamura Lomax’s book raises critical questions about the emotional experiences and lives of Black girls, women, mothers, and othermothers in a society that is both antiblack and deeply invested in heteropatriarchy. Lomax provides readers with a fresh and nuanced perspective on how Black feminism can free us from the political and spiritual prisons of misogyny and racial animus.” - Kaila Adia Story, author of The Rainbow Ain't Never Been Enuf: On the Myth of LGBTQ+ Solidarity

“I love this book. Tamura Lomax’s gorgeous voice pulls you toward her as she shares herself in all her rich variety. Her struggle is righteous and rebellious and subversive. She starts as an obedient Black church girl and emerges a revolutionary Black mother dismantling toxic masculinity and femininity along the way. Read and emerge with her. She is thinking about each of us as she helps you see and know her. She shows us that it is possible to make a new antiracist feminist world. This intimate personal telling is also inclusively specifically universal, which is an amazing feat.” - Zillah Eisenstein, author of Abolitionist Socialist Feminism: Radicalizing the Next Revolution

"Tamura Lomax’s Freeing Black Girls constitutes a rigorous and unapologetic intervention in Black feminist thought." - Shauntey James, Ethnic and Racial Studies