Book Launch for No Thanks: Black, Female, and Living in the Martyr-Free Zone

Host of the cutting edge podcast, Unchained. Unbothered., Keturah Kendrick will read from her debut collection of essays, No Thanks: Black, Female, and Living in the Martyr-Free Zone. A witty and insightful tribute to the free black woman who places herself in the center of her life, Kendrick will be interviewed by a fellow black feminist on themes in the book. Q&A with the audience will follow.

A New Orleanian by birth and New Yorker by choice, Keturah Kendrick has been penning insights about life at the intersection of race and gender for a decade. Aside from her popular blog, Yet Another Single Gal, she has written for The Unfit Christian, The Not Mom, NonParents, and numerous publications. A practicing Nichiren Buddhist and secular humanist, Kendrick seeks to widen the narrative of good black womanhood. Much of her work normalizes and celebrates the black woman who exists outside of the beloved box of gleeful sufferer of fools who sacrifices self for the greater good. No Thanks: Black, Female, and Living in the Martyr-Free Zone is her debut collection.











When: Sat., Jul. 13, 2019 at 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Where: Bluestockings
172 Allen St.

Price: Free
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Host of the cutting edge podcast, Unchained. Unbothered., Keturah Kendrick will read from her debut collection of essays, No Thanks: Black, Female, and Living in the Martyr-Free Zone. A witty and insightful tribute to the free black woman who places herself in the center of her life, Kendrick will be interviewed by a fellow black feminist on themes in the book. Q&A with the audience will follow.

A New Orleanian by birth and New Yorker by choice, Keturah Kendrick has been penning insights about life at the intersection of race and gender for a decade. Aside from her popular blog, Yet Another Single Gal, she has written for The Unfit Christian, The Not Mom, NonParents, and numerous publications. A practicing Nichiren Buddhist and secular humanist, Kendrick seeks to widen the narrative of good black womanhood. Much of her work normalizes and celebrates the black woman who exists outside of the beloved box of gleeful sufferer of fools who sacrifices self for the greater good. No Thanks: Black, Female, and Living in the Martyr-Free Zone is her debut collection.

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