Welcome to Balanced Black Girl, a podcast dedicated to mental, physical, and emotional

health from a Black woman's perspective.

Tune in to hear from Black woman health and wellness experts giving the approachable

advice you need to help you feel your best.

I'm your host, Lestrandra Alfred.

Let's dive in.

Thank you for tuning in to today's episode of Balanced Black Girl.

My name is Lest, and currently we're having conversations all about dreaming big and

taking our power back.

Today's episode is short, it's sweet, and it is incredibly necessary.

I had the honor of sitting down with Brittany Cooper, Susanna M. Morris, and Chanel Kraft

Tanner of the Crunk Feminist Collective.

The three of them just released their newest book, Feminist AF, A Guide to Crushing Girlhood,

which helps girls and gender non-binary young people of color find their voice.

This interview is a little shorter than usual, but by no means are their fewer gems dropped.

Brittany, Susanna, and Chanel are all incredible, brilliant women who share helpful insights

on ways we can take our power back from the systems that are designed to make us feel

anything but powerful, and how we can support the next generation in their journeys as well.

I also want to give you the heads up that, as enlightening and empowering as this conversation

is, sometimes technology gets the best of us, and this was my first time recording around

table episode virtually, and not speaking with multiple guests in person.

So some of the speakers might sound a little bit far away.

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