Mama A Queer Black Woman's Story of a Family Lost and Found

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Free Download Nikkya Hargrove, "Mama: A Queer Black Woman's Story of a Family Lost and Found"
English | ISBN: 1643751581 | 2024 | 240 pages | EPUB | 1514 KB
In this searing and uplifting memoir, a young Black queer woman fresh out of college adopts her baby brother after their incarcerated mother dies, determined to create the kind of family she never had.

Nikkya Hargrove spent a good portion of her childhood in prison visiting rooms. When her mother-addicted to cocaine and just out of prison-had a son and then died only a few months later, Nikkya was faced with an impossible choice. Although she had just graduated from college, she decided to fight for custody of her half brother, Jonathan. And fight she did.
Nikkya vividly recounts how she is subjected to preconceived notions that she, a Black queer young woman, cannot be given such responsibility. Her honest portrayal of the shame she feels accepting food stamps, her family's reaction to her coming out, and the joy she experiences when she meets the woman who will become her wife reveal her sheer determination. And whether she's clashing with Jonathan's biological father or battling for Jonathan's education rights after he's diagnosed with ADHD and autism, this is a woman who won't give up.
Nikkya's moving story picks up where Bryan Stevenson's
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