BONUS: 4 self-esteem building worksheets and 10 sets of fun activities: mazes, dot to dot, I SPY, spot the difference and word searches included! This beautiful coloring book is all about building a girl's confidence, imagination, and spirit! ♥ It seeks to remind and inspire girls that they are worthy, beautiful, intelligent and enough...positive affirmations will build up your child's self-esteem and transform her sense of self! The 37 coloring pages encourage little girls to think beyond social conventions and inspire conversations with adults about what it really means to be confident, brave, and beautiful. Girls will love coloring characters that look like them, from their natural hair to their braids. Promotes positive self-esteem. Positive and fun - a great gift for any girl! ♥ 37 beautiful and powerful illustrations. Each page contains a positive affirmation such as " "I AM CREATIVE AND INTELLIGENT", "I AM BEAUTIFUL INSIDE AND OUT ", "MY NATURAL HAIR IS FABULOUS", "I BELIEVE IN MYSELF" and "I AM PROUD OF MYSELF AND WHO I AM". BONUS: 4 self-esteem building worksheets and 10 sets of fun activities: mazes, dot to dot, I SPY, spot the difference and word searches included! Illustrations are printed on single sides to prevent any bleed issue Large size (8.5 x 11 inches)

Have you ever had trouble relaxing, feeling overwhelmed or remembering to take time out for YOU? Finally! A Self Care coloring book by Latoya Nicole - Exhale: Celebrating Black and Brown Women and it's the perfect Christmas gift to yourself. You can't pour from an empty cup. Give yourself permission to focus on self-care and self-love. It is important for your physical wellness and mental health, as well as for the health of your relationships. This self care coloring book provides 24 beautiful illustrations featuring motivational quotes and women relaxing, reading, journaling, exercising and putting themselves first. Add Self Care and Motivation back into your day with this diverse coloring book for adults. The perfect gift for friends, family and for yourself this holiday. It will inspire you and introduce you to ideas that all of us need to practice self care. Grab your colored pencils, markers, gel pens, and watercolors and have fun taking time to finally EXHALE. Looking for more diversity inspired coloring books for adults? Check out the following bestselling books by Latoya Nicole: "24 Shades of Business", "Me and My", "80's Ladies", "Alma Mater", and "Holiday Slay"! Buy it for yourself or as a gift as a great way to unwind. Premium gloss finish cover design Printed single sided on bright white paper Large format 8.5" x 11.0" pages Moderate to complex in detail

Winner, 2022 Children's Literature Association Book Award, given by the Children's Literature Association Winner, 2020 World Fantasy Awards Winner, 2020 British Fantasy Awards, Nonfiction Finalist, Creative Nonfiction IGNYTE Award, given by FIYACON for BIPOC+ in Speculative Fiction Reveals the diversity crisis in children's and young adult media as not only a lack of representation, but a lack of imagination Stories provide portals into other worlds, both real and imagined. The promise of escape draws people from all backgrounds to speculative fiction, but when people of color seek passageways into the fantastic, the doors are often barred. This problem lies not only with children’s publishing, but also with the television and film executives tasked with adapting these stories into a visual world. When characters of color do appear, they are often marginalized or subjected to violence, reinforcing for audiences that not all lives matter. The Dark Fantastic is an engaging and provocative exploration of race in popular youth and young adult speculative fiction. Grounded in her experiences as YA novelist, fanfiction writer, and scholar of education, Thomas considers four black girl protagonists from some of the most popular stories of the early 21st century: Bonnie Bennett from the CW’s The Vampire Diaries, Rue from Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games, Gwen from the BBC’s Merlin, and Angelina Johnson from J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter. Analyzing their narratives and audience reactions to them reveals how these characters mirror the violence against black and brown people in our own world. In response, Thomas uncovers and builds upon a tradition of fantasy and radical imagination in Black feminism and Afrofuturism to reveal new possibilities. Through fanfiction and other modes of counter-storytelling, young people of color have reinvisioned fantastic worlds that reflect their own experiences, their own lives. As Thomas powerfully asserts, “we dark girls deserve more, because we are more.”

16 BWWM Erotica Novels for Adults Exquisite and sensual, these full novels prove that the black brat will always come out on top! Black brat and white billionaire pounding pumping licking tasting virgin impregnation action! Contains **My First Time Was With An Older White Guy!** ”You are so smooth. So dark. I want you!” I couldn’t believe it when this amazing white man walked into my house, and turned my life upside down. The thing is, I couldn’t tell him how I felt. After all, he was the older man, and I his dark princess But when we were left alone together I knew I would take this all the way. Even if I am untouched. By any man, white or black! This book contains explicit depictions of interracial love making ** Her Forbidden Alpha ** Heven knew that when she first saw the alpha male man of the house, a sexy and seemingly unattainable billionaire named Pete Harrison, a global player and tech giant, her life might never be the same again ** He Wants Her Because She’s Black and Proud! ** ”Wow! For a white man you have a big one! I don’t know if it will fit” I have craved this man for so long! He is my boss, a successful white businessman with a mean white wife, a Mercedes, and a twinkle in his eye! ** This White Billionaire Wants Me! ** “Your black skin is so soft!” Oh yes. This white billionaire wants me! It’s wrong. We shouldn’t be doing this! ** Break Me!** A black brat. She lives with him and she wants this WHITE BILLIONAIRE **I Took Her White Billionaire From That Bitch!** Destiny was hot. Hot and horny Well she had to suck that cute delivery boy didn’t she? Would she take him from his skinny white bitch wife? **I Rode Your Husband, White Bitch!** Katherine wants the white billionaire she works for She just has to get him alone, and away from his skinny blonde bitch wife! Then she will ride him bareback, stretched by his big white meat, shooting inside her and impregnating her! ** I Was His Darkest Desire ** Gemini was both excited and intrigued when her she met him. He is her sexy billionaire boss who has everything she wants in a sexy older man! When they are left alone together, it isn’t too long before things get hot and very steamy! **I Took Him From His Skinny White Bitch!** The white bitch wife Chrissy was really using Yolanda this time! Not only did she treat her terribly, making her clean and cook like some slave, on minimum wage, in that big house of hers in the suburbs! She had all the money in the world, that white bitch, provided by her darling husband Craig, who worked so hard and never gotten any appreciation. And what’s more, Chrissy used Yolanda to cover for her when she goes out onto the rough side of the tracks, picking up random guys! Well, Yolanda has a surprise for them both! ** His Darkest Fantasy ** Imany never could have dreamed that she would bed this white alpha male She had to play it just right. To get him hard, and wanting to do anything to bed her ** An Older White Man, A Young Black Brat! ** Davina is excited and intrigued when she meets the older man who is going to share her house. Craig is a billionaire boss who has a toned white body as well as all the power and money in the world Soon the inevitable flirting happens,and it isn’t too long before they manage to get time alone. And that’s when things get hot and very filthy! ** Black Temptation ** Raven is a black woman with attitude! Even for someone so young, she knows what she wants. The older man who is her boss! He is in her apartment right now! There he is now... fixing himself a drink. ** Beyonce Wants White ** Beyonce was staying late with her billionaire boss. She is a smooth skinned black babe with a big hot ass. He is an eligible bachelor billionaire ** Dipping Into Black ** Latoya knows that Gary wants her. They have been flirting for months, right under the nose of his blonde bitch wife, and her supposed best friend! When the sexual tension between them got too much, his wife left him for a few days to think things through. That was when she pounced! But will it be happily ever after? **He Needs His Black Brat** Shania is excited and intrigued when she meets the older man who is going to share her house. Craig is a billionaire boss who has a toned white body as well as all the power and money in the world **I Took Him From Under Her Pretty White Nose!** How could she? I mean, she is supposed to be my best friend, but there she was, cheating on her wonderful white husband, and using me as the excuse! Well I have a surprise for her! I am going to take him, from right under her pretty white nose!

To sustain contemporary movements towards educational equity, postsecondary leaders at all levels need resources that connect evidence-based critiques of structural inequities to forward-thinking visions for a more socially-just academy. To address this critical challenge, we bring together scholars to deconstruct oppressive norms of theory and practice and provide a direction towards reconsiderations across various postsecondary contexts. Each chapter identifies a normative practice that reinforces material and cultural oppression of student populations from minoritized identities, challenge underlying assumptions that support current norms, and make recommendations for redeveloping practices that center the well-being and success of underserved student populations. In presenting a range of expertise and disciplinary foci in the study of higher education, this volume contributes to a holistic re-envisioning of colleges and universities as transformational spaces for social change. The book provides insights and recommendations from scholars to a wide-ranging audience, including federal and state policymakers, postsecondary administrators and leaders, philanthropists, researchers, and graduate students. The primary audience are graduate students enrolled in various educational leadership programs including educational policy studies, higher education, student affairs, curriculum and instruction, or learning sciences. This book will be especially valuable for increasing the focus on generative critique in research, practice, and policy in graduate programming curriculum. This volume will also be a valuable resource for policymakers involved in shaping postsecondary initiatives at the local, state, and federal levels. Finally, this book will appeal to current practitioners at colleges, and universities as they seek additional professional development and cross-institutional collegiality around practices related to social justice and equity. ENDORSEMENTS: "This book opens with an account of Ronald Reagan’s draconian policies and practices to silence political dissenters and demonstrators within the University of California. Horrifyingly, we now have politically ambitious governors using Reaganesque tactics to shut down critical race theory, the teaching of authentic Black history, the use of terms like Latinx. Critiques For Transformation: Reimagining Colleges & Communities For Social Justice is the essential antidote to the antidemocratic Orwellian practices that are bent on disempowering advocates for racial justice." — Estela Bensimon. University of Southern California "Critiques for Transformation: Reimaging Colleges and Universities for Social Justice provide impressive examinations and posit modes to envision “reimagining” ways for universities to move toward authentic diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). The senior, mid-career, and emerging professionals tackle DEI from a variety of conceptual frameworks that contribute to rich discussions of challenges and opportunities. By examining some classic writings from education and social sciences, the chapters elucidate how contemporary scholarly activities and research can be linked to the integrative roles of public engagement for both internal university communities and external audiences. The volume will be quite helpful to a range of constituents within the United States, i.e., a nation that has some of the most diverse structures and systems of colleges and universities." — Beverly Lindsay, Pennsylvania State University "To offer a scholarly critique is often uneven with little attention dedicated to altering the most troubling patterns, in this case, in higher education. This book brings rigorous critique but also engages in world-building, taking up what we can do today to make higher education break with its exclusionary and profit-seeking ways. Every chapter focuses on a particular facet of higher education and carefully imagines it as a space for possibility rather than arbitrary rules for the sake of hierarchy. As higher education wrings its hands about its place in the pandemic, this book is the guide." — Leigh Patel, University of Pittsburgh

Contributions by Malin Alkestrand, Joshua Yu Burnett, Sean P. Connors, Jill Coste, Meghan Gilbert-Hickey, Miranda A. Green-Barteet, Sierra Hale, Kathryn Strong Hansen, Elizabeth Ho, Esther L. Jones, Sarah Olutola, Alex Polish, Zara Rix, Susan Tan, and Roberta Seelinger Trites Race in Young Adult Speculative Fiction offers a sustained analysis of race and representation in young adult speculative fiction (YASF). The collection considers how characters of color are represented in YASF, how they contribute to and participate in speculative worlds, how race affects or influences the structures of speculative worlds, and how race and racial ideologies are implicated in YASF. This collection also examines how race and racism are discussed in YASF or if, indeed, race and racism are discussed at all. Essays explore such notable and popular works as the Divergent series, The Red Queen, The Lunar Chronicles, and the Infernal Devices trilogy. They consider the effects of colorblind ideology and postracialism on YASF, a genre that is often seen as progressive in its representation of adolescent protagonists. Simply put, colorblindness silences those who believe—and whose experiences demonstrate—that race and racism do continue to matter. In examining how some YASF texts normalize many of our social structures and hierarchies, this collection examines how race and racism are represented in the genre and considers how hierarchies of race are reinscribed in some texts and transgressed in others. Contributors point toward the potential of YASF to address and interrogate racial inequities in the contemporary West and beyond. They critique texts that fall short of this possibility, and they articulate ways in which readers and critics alike might nonetheless locate diversity within narratives. This is a collection troubled by the lingering emphasis on colorblindness in YASF, but it is also the work of scholars who love the genre and celebrate its progress toward inclusivity, and who further see in it an enduring future for intersectional identity.

This is a classic, standard resource for collection building and on-the-spot readers advisory absolutely indispensable for school and public libraries.