Slay In Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible. Yomi Adegoke

      

      

       Copyright

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      This eBook first published in Great Britain by 4th Estate in 2018

      Copyright © Yomi Adegoke & Elizabeth Uviebinené

      Picture section photographs: here, here, here and here by Dorothy Oginni; here, here, here and here by Tish Greenaway.

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      Source ISBN: 9780008235628

      Ebook Edition © July 2018 ISBN: 9780008235611

      Version: 2018-09-13

       Dedication

       For Yem, who taught me to ‘Slay In My Lane’ before I knew what it meant to, and for Yinks, who inspires me to do so daily, and more than she will ever know.

       Yomi

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       In loving memory of Ingrid & Sidwell, thank you for everything.

       Elizabeth

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Interviewees

      Foreword by Karen Blackett

       Introduction

‘It’s Always a Race Thing With Her’

       Education

Lawyer, Doctor, Engineer

Black Faces in White Spaces

       Work

Work Twice as Hard to Get Half as Good

       Water Cooler Microaggressions

       ***Flawless

       Getting Ahead

       Independent Women

       When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade

       Representation

       Being Susan Storm

       Fifty Shades of Beige

       #RepresentationMatters

       Dating

       Does He Like Black Girls?

       No Scrubs

       Health

       Black Girls Don’t Cry

       TLC

       Afterword

       Picture Section

       Endnotes

       Bibliography

       Acknowledgements

       About the Authors

       About the Publisher

       INTERVIEWEES

       Ade Hassan MBE

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       Afua Hirsch

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       AJ Odudu

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       Alexis Oladipo

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