All the Black Girls Are Activists; A Fourth Wave Womanist Pursuit of Dreams as Radical Resistance
by EbonyJanice Moore was breathtaking and painful and beautiful and powerful as fuck! A MUST READ for everyone. I was truly thankful to have gotten to read this before most people! I would like to purchase this one for my physical library!

The book that best describes the fourth wave of womanism is currently available. EbonyJanice persuasively demonstrates that for Black women and other marginalised Black genders, ease, joy, and rest are liberation. With kindness, wit, and humour, she achieves this with ease. All the Black Girls are Activists transforms what might have been a difficult framework into a useful tool for every reader by weaving personal narrative with the occasional pop culture allusion and reflections on Black culture.

I'm here to give EbonyJanice her flowers for this book. "All the Black Girls Are Activists" is a thought-provoking and empowering exploration of a fourth wave of Womanism, where dreaming, softness, ancestral reverence, and radical wholeness become tools of liberation.

EbonyJanice offers a collection of essays that serve as a heartfelt love letter to Black girls and Black women. At the core of these essays is a profound question: "Who would black women get to be if we did not have to create from a place of resistance?" EbonyJanice encourages Black women to envision and embrace lives filled with wellness, wholeness, and self-preservation as a radical act of revolution.

The book delves into various aspects of this fourth wave of Womanism, touching on spirituality, the significance of ancestors, and the practice of living a gentle and enlightened life. EbonyJanice draws from her own experiences and insights, weaving them into a narrative that resonates with authenticity and wisdom.

EbonyJanice's passion and dedication to her subject matter shine through in every page. Her work challenges societal norms and expectations while celebrating the strength and resilience of Black women. This book is a call to action, an invitation to embrace a life rooted in self-love and radical self-care.

In "All the Black Girls Are Activists," EbonyJanice invites readers to put respect on the names of Black women and femmes, recognizing their vital contributions to society. It's a compelling read that not only sheds light on the importance of softness and enlightenment but also highlights the need for collective healing and empowerment within the Black community.

This book is a powerful addition to the ongoing conversation about Womanism and serves as an inspirational and transformative guide for all those who seek to live authentically and resist oppressive forces.

This book, though not written for me, was a beautiful read. As a white woman involved in local activism, this read gave me further insight into what burdens Black women carry with them, both in the world at large and in the activism space. The topics covered are so thoughtful and important. I loved learning more about the history of womanism.

Put some RESPECT on her name!

All The Black Girls Are Activists far exceeds my expectations of what I knew would be a call to action for all Black girls, women, and femmes. Admittedly, I did not know much about the author prior to opening this book but EbonyJanice definitely left her mark on me. I love how at the forefront of this book is a question that I kept in mind all throughout: “Who would black women get to be if we did not have to create from a place of resistance?”I am gracious to NetGalley for gifting me an e-ARC, in exchange for an honest review.

EbonyJanice invokes so much passion into her work and her writing, it is no wonder there was a ton of hype over this book of essays. Here, she introduces a contemporary fourth wave of womanism (that some might call a soft-era) highlighting wellness, wholeness, and survival as the radical revolution we've all been waiting for. Drawing from historical examples, anecdotes, and research this book brought home what it means to live freely and sit in a soft and enlightened experience.

I knew I'd appreciate this book so much by its end looking at the copious notes and highlights I was making from the start. It is an excellent addition to conversations on the subject and I of course plan to support her efforts in reading other works of women and femme's that's she's highlighted in this book.

All this to say: You go girl!

First, if you haven’t already, go follow EbonyJanice Moore on Instagram and then go pre-order or buy All the Black Girls Are Activists. Secondly, I am a middle-aged white woman who is working on unlearning white supremacy, so this book was not written for me. Regardless, I got a lot out of reading this, and I think other white and non-Black people will too.

Purely as a reading experience, All the Black Girls are Activists: A Fourth Wave Womanist Pursuit of Dreams as Radical Resistance is a joy. EbonyJanice writes with passion for her subjects and compassion for her readers. One of the things I enjoyed about reading her essays was the way her work conveyed that it is part of a larger movement. She incorporates the work of contemporaries and quotes the works of the people who came before her. I was familiar with some of the people named and added others to my list of people to read.

I mention this because individualism is one of the hallmarks of white supremacy, a system which I am working on dismantling within my own self. Years ago I had a friend and housemate who helped organize a yearly weekend gathering for queer women of color. I loved hearing her talk about it. It sounded amazing, but I didn’t ask to go because I am not a queer woman of color. It wasn’t until she talked about a white colleague haranguing her about not being invited that I really understood why the weekend was closed to white women. Her description of how viscerally she wanted a space where she didn’t have to worry about a white woman’s feelings all the time has stuck with me. I had a similar feeling reading All the Black Girls are Activists. I am not invited inside the Womanist tent, and I am ok with that. I loved reading about the work she and other Black femmes are doing, and I will continue to read and support that work, while also staying in my lane. We all need space to breath and just be.

I received this as an advance reader copy from Row House Publishing and NetGalley. My opinions are my own, freely and honestly given.

This book is fantastic. I love EbonyJanice’s transparency and how it all relates to being a Black Woman where our very existence forces us to be activists whether we want to be or not. If you know, you know. My hope is for all within Women’s Gender and Sexuality classes to be required to read this and really dissect what EbonyJanice is getting at.

“It is essential to my intention to heal my ancestors in this journey to freedom, and it is essential to ensuring that the generation to come never has to find out, after the fact, that they wouldn’t be the first to do something like that.” Centering ancestor and healing work is at the heart of this book. EbonyJanice details a fourth wave womanism that honors legacy but centers self and communal healing, drawing on contemporary musicians and thinkers as central inspirations. I appreciated her perspective on the role of daughters, breaking out of what’s expected. She comes back to a quote from Alice Walker several times in the book about not being the first—which connects with this theme. This book will be well received by EbonyJanice’s online community and has the reach + vision to call in other women to imagine their freedoms.

This is a very insightful book on the author's passion towards living a soft and enlightened life and inspiring other black women to do the same. Even though this was really short, I enjoyed the author's stories and the real-life experiences that they wove into this. I knew this book was good because I was nodding my head and highlighting phrases in it. There was a bit about religion, ancestors, and spirituality, which I thought was very interesting. I loved all the bits about how she practiced living a gentle life and drew experiences from her ancestors. Overall I enjoyed reading this, I didn't know there was a womanist movement, and I liked learning about that and how to collectively come together and figure out what healing looks like.

Thank you, Row House Publishing, for this arc.

Wow. All i can say is that as a black woman , I really felt the passion that EbonyJanice put into this book. I dont meant to be dramatic but at some points in the book i even began to tear up because some of the topics hit close to home. This book was definitely something that i relate to personally and will definitely need a physical copy to reread and highlight all of the points that hit. I appreciated the touch of humor throughout the book , I’m not sure if it was just how EbonyJanice is as a writer or if it was unintentional but either way i loved it.

I think all Black Women should read this book.

Thank you to NetGalley and to Row House Publishing for gifting me the opportunity to read this book before its release date.

Wow this book was extremely well written! I found it very insightful and you can definitely feel EbonyJanice’s passion behind this!!

EbonyJanice Moore is a womanist, scholar, author, and community organizer who is passionate about decolonizing the idea of how we tend to look at credibility. She wants all Black femmes to know that there are many ways to receive an education and most especially when we honor our lived experiences, that of our foremothers, and that of the ancestors in our lineages.

In All the Black Girls Are Activists EbonyJanice Moore provides readers with her own unique contribution to what she names fourth-wave womanism. This fourth wave of womanism is defined as a womanist/spiritual/justice practice, theory, and sociopolitical praxis that centers the importance of rest, pleasure, ease and play for Black women. Moore asserts that rest, pleasure, ease and play are central tools in our healing and justice work.

She honors the work of the elders we build upon and breaks down the three waves of womanism and their canonical figures:

Wave one: The first Black women writers who called their work "womanism". They called out the limitations of feminism and centered Black liberation theology as a way to include the labor and contributions of Black women to the feminist movement.

Wave two: The scholars and theologians who started doing canon-building work and building off the foundation of wave one.

Wave three: The scholars who integrated the work and literature of waves one and two and included Afrofuturism into the discussion around popular culture, technology, and diasporic spiritual practice .

All the Black Girls are Activists is an example of trailblazing scholarship in wave four of the womanist movement. A fourth wave that honors and incorporates waves one through three and is not based in the bias of credentialism or traditional scholarship. The fourth wave of womanism honors the inherent knowledge of all non-male, Black contributors.

Thanks to the shift social media has made towards making information accessible to all, this fourth wave is about the collective and communal efforts of all of us doing this healing work. This book is love offering and a game changer!

Thank you to the author and publisher for the e-arc copy!

This book of essays is a must read and needs to be in all public libraries across our country.

This is one of the most beautiful books I have ever reviewed about black women and girls. This book talks about answers to much asked questions that are prevalent in our societal cultures, in our past present and futures.

I learned a lot about EbonyJanice, who is the founder of Dream Yourself Free, a spiritual mentor organization focused on resources for black women among many other jobs and positions she holds. What an amazing person.

Thank you to the publisher via NetGalley for the honor to read and review in exchange for my honest opinions.