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Dear Black Girl


Dear Black Girl: Letters From Your Sisters On Stepping Into Your Power
Author: Tamara Winfrey Harris
Illustrator: Monica Ahanonu
Client: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Role: Art direction, cover design & custom lettering
Dear Black Girl features the best of the Letters to Black Girls Project — More than 30 feminist, anti-racist, body positive, LGBTQ+ positive, anti-respectability politics and pro-Black letters from Black women to Black girls wrapped in author Tamara Winfrey-Harris’ analysis Dear Black Girl is a must-read antidote to the world’s ugly, unforgiving gaze—a balm for the wounds of anti-Black-girlness.

Recognition: Shondaland highlights Dear Black Girl, read story.
1975 — Born in Brooklyn, raised in Charlotte.