NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of The Roots 28 Brilliant Books by Black Authors in 2018 A writer to be reckoned with. --Roxane Gay Named one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2018 by Esquire Elle Vogue Nylon The Millions Refinery29 the Huffington Post Book Riot Bitch Media Electric Literature The Rumpus Vol 1. Brooklyn and Paperback Paris. From one of the fiercest critics writing today Morgan Jerkins highly-anticipated collection of linked essays interweaves her incisive commentary on pop culture feminism black history misogyny and racism with her own experiences to confront the very real challenges of being a black woman today--perfect for fans of Roxane Gay s Bad Feminist Rebecca Solnit s Men Explain Things to Me and Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie s We Should All Be Feminists. Morgan Jerkins is only in her twenties but she has already established herself as an insightful brutally honest writer who isn t afraid of tackling tough controversial subjects. In This Will Be My Undoing she takes on perhaps one of the most provocative contemporary topics: What does it mean to be --to live as to exist as--a black woman today? This is a book about black women but it s necessary reading for all Americans. Doubly disenfranchised by race and gender often deprived of a place within the mostly white mainstream feminist movement black women are objectified silenced and marginalized with devastating consequences in ways both obvious and subtle that are rarely acknowledged in our country s larger discussion about inequality. In This Will Be My Undoing Jerkins becomes both narrator and subject to expose the social cultural and historical story of black female oppression that influences the black community as well as the white male-dominated world at large. Whether she s writing about Sailor Moon; Rachel Dolezal; the stigma of therapy; her complex relationship with her own physical body; the pain of dating when men say they don t see color ; being a black visitor in Russia; the specter of the fast-tailed girl and the paradox of black female sexuality; or disabled black women in the context of the Black Girl Magic movement Jerkins is compelling and revelatory.