What We’re Reading: Swirl Girl: Coming of Race in the USA

Swirl Girl: Coming of Race in the USA reveals how a hard-headed, Mixed-race, “Black Power Flower Child ” battles society—and sometimes her closest loved ones—to forge her identity on her own terms. As the USA undergoes its own racial growing pains, from the 1968 riots after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, to the historic 2008 election of the nation’s first Biracially Black president, Girls Write Now mentor alum TaRessa Stovall challenges popular stereotypes and fights nonstop pressures to contort, disguise, or deny her uncomfortable truths.

TaRessa was interviewed by Girls Write Now mentee and intern Kayla Dudley for an episode of Speaking in First Draft. Listen here.