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You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain
Phoebe Robinson
A
NEW YORK TIMES
BEST SELLER • “A must-read...Phoebe Robinson discusses race and feminism in such a funny, real, and specific way, it penetrates your brain and stays with you.”
—Ilana Glazer
, co-creator and co-star of
Broad City
A hilarious and timely essay collection about race, gender, and pop culture from comedy superstar and
2 Dope Queens
podcaster Phoebe Robinson
Being a black woman in America means contending with old prejudices and fresh absurdities every day. Comedian Phoebe Robinson has experienced her fair share over the years: she's been unceremoniously relegated to the role of “the black friend,” as if she is somehow the authority on all things racial; she's been questioned about her love of U2 and Billy Joel (“isn’t that...white people music?”); she's been called “uppity” for having an opinion in the workplace; she's been followed around stores by security guards; and yes, people do ask her whether they can touch her hair all. the. time. Now, she's ready to take these topics to the page—and she’s going to make you laugh as she’s doing it.
Using her trademark wit alongside pop-culture references galore, Robinson explores everything from why Lisa Bonet is “Queen. Bae. Jesus,” to breaking down the terrible nature of casting calls, to giving her less-than-traditional advice to the future female president, and demanding that the NFL clean up its act, all told in the same conversational voice that launched her podcast,
2 Dope Queens
, to the top spot on iTunes. As personal as it is political,
You Can't Touch My Hair
examines our cultural climate and skewers our biases with humor and heart, announcing Robinson as a writer on the rise.
One of
Glamour
's “Top 10 Books of 2016”
$9.99
Everything's Trash, But It's Okay
Phoebe Robinson
Entertainment Weekly
, "Fall's 20 Must-Reads" (2018)
Essence
, "Fall 2018 Guide to All Things Funny
"
Bustle
, "18 New Nonfiction Books to Know in October 2018"
"Robinson offers deft cultural criticism and hilarious personal anecdotes that will make readers laugh, cringe, and cry. Everything may indeed be trash but writing like this reminds us that we're gonna make it through all the terrible things with honesty, laughter, and faith."--Roxane Gay,
New York Times
bestselling author
New York Times
bestselling author and star of
2 Dope Queens
Phoebe Robinson is back with a new, hilarious, and timely essay collection on gender, race, dating, and the dumpster fire that is our world.
Written in her trademark unfiltered and witty style, Robinson's latest collection is a call to arms. Outfitted with on-point pop culture references, these essays tackle a wide range of topics: giving feminism a tough-love talk on intersectionality, telling society's beauty standards to kick rocks, and calling foul on our culture's obsession with work. Robinson also gets personal, exploring money problems she's hidden from her parents, how dating is mainly a warmed-over bowl of hot mess, and, definitely most important, meeting Bono not once, but twice. She's struggled with being a woman with a political mind and a woman with an ever-changing jeans size. She knows about trash because she sees it every day--and because she's seen roughly one hundred thousand hours of reality TV and zero hours of
Schindler's List
.
With the intimate voice of a new best friend,
Everything's Trash, But It's Okay
is a candid perspective for a generation that has had the rug pulled out from under it too many times to count.
$12.99
Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays
Phoebe Robinson
With sharp, timely insight, pitch-perfect pop culture references, and her always unforgettable voice,
New York Times
bestselling author, comedian, actress, and producer Phoebe Robinson is back with her most must-read book yet.
In her brand-new collection, Phoebe shares stories that will make you laugh, but also plenty that will hit you in the heart, inspire a little bit of rage, and maybe a lot of action. That means sharing her perspective on performative allyship, white guilt, and what happens when white people take up space in cultural movements; exploring what it’s like to be a woman who doesn’t want kids living in a society where motherhood is the crowning achievement of a straight, cis woman’s life; and how the dire state of mental health in America means that taking care of one’s mental health—aka “self-care”—usually requires disposable money.
She also shares stories about her mom slow-poking before a visit with Mrs. Obama, the stupidly fake reassurances of zip-line attendants, her favorite things about dating a white person from the UK, and how the lack of Black women in leadership positions fueled her to become the Black lady boss of her dreams. By turns perceptive, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartfelt,
Please Don’t Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes
is not only a brilliant look at our current cultural moment, it's also a collection that
will stay with readers for years to come.
$14.99
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