Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes by Phoebe Robinson

Phoebe Robinson is a phenomenal writer who is tackling the hard topics with grace and humor. Does all of it hit? Maybe not but it's all entertaining. And I've learned about things that I never knew before like 4C hair and outside clothes. I guess I knew about outside clothes before but this was an even deeper dive into that topic as well as things like racism, living duringba pandemic and a host of other topics.

Four stars

This book came out September 28th 2021

Borrowed as ebook from Libby

Opinions are my own

Everything's Trash, But It's Okay by Phoebe Robinson

Phoebe Robinson is back with more of her observations about life. This time she covers feminism, toxic masculinity and other hard (and some not so hard topics with her trademark humor).
I have to admit, I suspect that I didn't enjoy this book as much as the first one because of where I am in my own life versus Ms. Robinson's writing. I think that most people will enjoy this book as much as the first.

This book came out October 16
Three stars
ARC kindly provided by NetGalley. Opinions are my own

You Can't Touch My Hair And Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Phoebe Robinson

OK, so the biography authors I've been reading lately have really been knocking it out of the park and Phoebe Robinson is no exception. I had never heard of her before but the title of her book intrigued me. I soon learned that Phoebe is a an actress and, if I still watched the Daily Show, I might've seen her there.

And her strong authorial voice makes me feel like I get to know her as a person. A wonderfully delightful person. She talks a lot about what it's like to be a black woman in today's day and age and speaks very insightfully into the struggles that she faces as someone who is more often surrounded by people who are not her skin color than people who are.

Her stories are told with not a little bit of humor but at the bottom you can still feel the anger and frustration that builds up as these little micro aggressions get you Every. Single. Day. She brings her experience to the page in a way that even I, a white woman living in Montana, can start to understand. I will most definitely be looking up 2 Dope Queens and will be looking out for more by this author as well as her partner on "Queens," Jessica Williams (awesome name!), who wrote the forward.

This book comes out October 4

Five Stars