Danielle Prescod, TOKEN BLACK GIRL: A Memoir
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Zibby is joined by fashion and beauty insider and debut author Danielle Prescod to discuss Token Black Girl, a sharp and witty new memoir about a Black girl’s racial identity, eating disorder, conditional self-love, and delusions of perfection. Danielle talks about revisiting painful memories–from being racially harassed in all-white private schools to developing bulimia at the age of 12 to struggling with her IVF treatment. She also talks about the business she founded to help beauty and fashion brands craft antiracist identities and marketing strategies.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, the creator and host of the award-winning podcast that you're listening to right now. |
| 0:07.8 | Thank you so much called Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:10.7 | It is a daily podcast 365 days a year, and each day we talk to an author about all of the things related to their career, their book, their life, and more in 30 minutes or |
| 0:21.1 | less, because who has time? I am now an author myself, although I wasn't when I started this |
| 0:25.9 | podcast, and you can get my new memoir, Bookends, a memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature, |
| 0:31.8 | wherever books are sold starting July 1st, and my children's book, Princess Charming. You can |
| 0:37.4 | learn more about me at Zibby Owens.com, |
| 0:39.5 | but really you're here to learn more about the authors, |
| 0:42.2 | and that is what we're going to do. |
| 0:44.4 | Also, be sure to check out all the other podcasts |
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| 0:51.9 | and definitely check out those shows as well. |
| 0:58.3 | Thank you. at ZCastnetwork.com and definitely check out those shows as well. Danielle Prescott is the author of Token Black Girl, a memoir. |
| 1:02.1 | Danielle is a 15-year veteran of the beauty and fashion industry and a graduate of NYU's |
| 1:06.8 | Gallatin School of individualized study. |
| 1:09.9 | A lifelong fashion obsessive. She was most recently |
| 1:12.6 | the style director of BET.com. With Chrissy Rutherford, Prescott co-founded 2BG consulting, |
| 1:19.7 | which aids fashion and beauty brands and influencers on their anti-racism journeys. |
| 1:24.6 | She dedicates her time to researching how feminism and social justice intersect |
| 1:28.5 | with pop culture. An avid reader and writer, Prescott also loves TikTok, the arts, staying active, |
| 1:34.7 | horseback riding, and exercising at any hour of the day. She has been featured recently in Harper's |
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