{"product_id":"taking-up-space-the-black-girls-manifesto-for-change-paperback-2","title":"Taking Up Space: The Black Girl's Manifesto for Change - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChelsea Kwakye\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eOre Ogunbiyi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHE FLAGSHIP 2019 RELEASE OF #MERKY BOOKS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e____________________________\u003cbr\u003e'Brilliant'\u003c\/b\u003e CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Hugely important' \u003c\/b\u003ePAULA AKPAN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Essential' \u003c\/b\u003eBERNARDINE EVARISTO\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e____________________________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs a minority in a predominantly white institution, taking up space is an act of resistance. Recent Cambridge grads Chelsea and Ore experienced this first-hand, and wrote \u003ci\u003eTaking Up Space\u003c\/i\u003e as a guide and a manifesto for change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFOR BLACK GIRLS: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUnderstand that your journey is unique. Use this book as a guide. Our wish for you is that you read this and feel empowered, comforted and validated in every emotion you experience, or decision that you make. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFOR EVERYONE ELSE: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe can only hope that reading this helps you to be a better friend, parent, sibling or teacher to black girls living through what we did. It's time we stepped away from seeing this as a problem that black people are charged with solving on their own. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIt's a collective effort.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnd everyone has a role to play.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFeaturing honest conversations with students past and present, \u003cb\u003eTaking Up Space\u003c\/b\u003e goes beyond the buzzwords of diversity and inclusion and explores what those words truly mean for young black girls today.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e____________________________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e#Merky Books\u003c\/b\u003e was set up by publishers Penguin Random House and Stormzy in June 2018 to find and publish the best writers of a new generation and to publish the stories that are not being heard. #Merky Books aims to open up the world of publishing, and this year has launched a New Writer's Prize and will soon be launching a #Merky Books traineeship. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'I know too many talented writers that don't always have an outlet or a means to get their work seen, and hopefully #Merky Books can now be a reference point for them to say \"I can be an author\", and for that to be a realistic and achievable goal... Reading and writing as a kid were integral to where I am today and I, from the bottom of my heart, cannot wait to hear your stories and get them out into the big wide world.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSTORMZY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eChelsea Kwakye is a first-class honours History graduate from Homerton College, Cambridge. Whilst at Cambridge she was the only black girl in her year group of around 200 to read History. In her final year, she was Vice-President of the African-Caribbean Society and competed in a Cambridge vs. Oxford Varsity Athletics match. She is currently studying at the University of Law in preparation for a training contract with a city law firm in London.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOre Ogunbiyi is a Nigerian-British Politics and International Relations graduate from Jesus College, Cambridge. 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