Foreword / Michelle Duster --
The origin story / Janna a. Zinzi --
The structure and the struggle. Introduction / Kemi Alabi --
The violence happening in Ferguson is more than physical / Alexandra Moffett-Bateau --
Powerless in the face of white supremacy and a gun / Bianca Campbell --
Healing in the midst of tragedy : how can black folks keep surviving in the face of constant trauma? / Quita Tinsley --
What Black Lives Matter organizers are doing to fight white supremacy at every level / Shanelle Matthews --
Urban and rural America are connected by economic refuges like me / Erin Malone --
Equal pay day for (some) African American women / Alexandra Moffett-Bateau --
#UsToo : we must expand the conversation on sexual violence / Raquel Willis --
The school-to-prison pipeline affects girls of color, but reform efforts pass them by / Ruth Jeannoel --
The right to (black) life / Renee Bracey Sherman --
Birth justice ...and yes, that includes abortion. Introduction / Cynthia R. Greenlee --
Who should you listen to on abortion? people who've had them / Renee Bracey Sherman --
The road to Roe : paved with bodies of women of color and the legal activism of African Americans / Cynthia R. Greenlee --
Whitewashing reproductive rights : how black activists get erased / Renee Bracey Sherman --
What my first pregnancy taught me about birth justice / Ruth Jeannoel --
Serena Williams could insist that doctors listen to her. most black women can't. / Elizabeth Dawes Gay --
Choice under fire : issues surrounding African American reproductive rights / Renee Bracey Sherman --
The story that's taken ten years to tell : on abortion, race, and the power of story / Shenelle Matthews --
On "commonsense childbirth" : a QA with midwife Jennie Joseph / Elizabeth Dawes Gay --
Insurance coverage of doula care would benefit patients and service providers alike / Elizabeth Dawes Gay --
The largely forgotten history of abortion billboard advertising --
and what pro-choice advocates can learn from it / Cynthia R. Greenlee --
Want to win on abortion? talk about it as an issue of love, compassion / Yamani Hernandez --
Family matters. Introduction / Kemi Alabi --
A (midwestern) black lesbian's reflections on 20 years of being "family" / Jasmine Burnett --
Stigma around "nontraditional" families won't end with assisted reproductive technology / Bianca Campbell --
Trans women are women. this isn't a debate. / Raquel Willis --
On being a proud teen mom : I don't hate myself as much as you wish I did / Gloria Malone --
For my mother : a day without cancer / Cynthia R. Greenlee --
I'll always love Big Poppa : how Biggie Smalls helped me understand my parents' deaths / Brittany Brathwaite --
The backlash to Beyoncé's pregnancy is an example of the attack on black motherhood / Gloria Malone --
The criminal justice system is failing black families / Samantha Daley --
The names of things / Kemi Alabi --
Naked power. Introduction / Janna A. Zinzi --
Auntie conversations : black women talk sex, self-care, and illness / Charmaine Lang --
Shaming women about having sex doesn't stop us from having sex / Emma Akpan --
A new "pum pum palitix" : carnival and the sex education the Caribbean needs / Bianca Campbell and Samantha Daley --
Exam rooms and bedrooms : navigating queer sexual health / Taja Lindley --
Why doesn't the trans community have a legit dating app yet? / Raquel Willis --
Sexy MF : celebrating Prince, New Orleans Baby Dolls, and not giving a f*ck / Janna A. Zinzi --
This is what naked power looks like / Taja LIndley --
Black, queer, and dating in the buckle of the bible belt / Jordan Scruggs --
Radically truthful dating profiles / Various --
Beauty breaks. Introduction / Cynthia R. Greenlee --
Why I debated getting my breasts augmented --
and why I finally did / Raquel Willis --
Learning to love it, yes even that : boob sweat and more / Quita Tinsley --
I'm a black woman; that doesn't mean I have a bomb in my hair / Taja Lindley --
Soft beautiful just for me relaxer, no-lye conditioning crème, children's regular / Kemi Alabi --
I like my unruly eyebrows, thank you very much / Cynthia R. Greenlee --
"Are you just a plaything of nature?" Amina Ross on the politics of beauty / Kemi Alabi --
For the kulcha. Introduction / Janna A. Zinzi --
How Prince helped me be black and genderqueer in America's bible capital / Jordan Scruggs --
30 years later, 7 ways A different world was woke AF / Brittany Brathwaite --
How statement t-shirts unite black history, culture, and fashion / Cynthia R. Greenlee --
Where's the 16, parenting, and OK reality show? / Gloria Malone --
Lemonade refreshed my spirit. I didn't feel exploited, commodified, or powerless, bell hooks. Emma Akpan --
I became a black woman in Spokane, but, Rachel Dolezal, I was a black girl first. / Alicia Walters --
Weed for period pain? yes, but I want equity in the marijuana industry too / Jasmine Burnett --
Tourmaline wants her just due / Raquel Willis --
The word is "nemesis" : the fight to integrate the national spelling bee / Cynthia R. Greenlee --
We will always love you : why Whitney Houston was our all-American gurl / Jordan Scruggs and Janna A. Zinzi --
Black love and black futures. Introduction / Cynthia R. Greenlee --
Journey to me : how I came out and embraced all of me / Charmaine Lang --
We should all go to rehab / Yamani Hernandez --
In betweens / Jordan Scruggs --
Trans visionaries : how Miss Major helped spark the modern trans movement / Raquel Willis --
Pleasure politics part I : employment, economic justice, and the erotic / Taja LIndley --
Herbs that fortify us / Carib Healing Collective --
Lessons in queer community building : fear, yearning, and loving in Milwaukee / Charmaine Lang --
Word is bond : a ritual / Taja Lindley --
Onward. Sometimes, the struggle isn't with "them." it's between us. / Cynthia R. Greenlee and Charmaine Lang --
Bernie is not my bro and Omarosa is not my homegirl : Idas as interrupters / Janna A. Zinzi --
Reverse haiku for black writers when the calls for pitches are too much / Cynthia R. Greenlee --
Toward our black feminist future / Kemi Alabi.
