No Handouts for Black Girls

by Toshiba Billings

No Handouts For Black Girls is part cautionary tale, part love letter to Black women that will take the reader through a range of emotions. Fusing personal anecdotes with often hilarious real talk, no bullsh*t advice, this book dismantles the fallacy of the Strong Black Woman and how trying to live up to that narrative has kept us from living our whole truth. Toshiba goes in hard, but the weight of her words is tempered with humour and "say what now?" moments. At its core, it's an outpouring of love to Black women everywhere and feels like a heart-to-heart conversation with your very best friend.