About this episode

Brittney Cooper discusses her heartwarming book 'Mama Says I'm Fine', exploring themes of love and resilience in the mother-daughter relationship.

New York Times bestselling author, Brittney Cooper, comes a heartwarming story of love and resilience that explores the powerful force of a mother-daughter bond. MAMA SAYS I’M FINE is a sweet story of family and maternal love, largely based on her own childhood, which showcases her famous feminist sensibility and messages of empowerment for young girls. BRITTNEY COOPER is the New York Times bestselling author of several books, including her debut picture book Stand Up! 10 Mighty Women Who Made a Change, and the novels Feminist AF: A Guide to Crushing Girlhood and Eloquent Rage: A Black Woman Discovers Her Superpowers. A professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University, she cofounded the Crunk Feminist Collective, and her cultural commentary has been featured on MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes, Melissa Harris-Perry, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Marie Claire, The Cut, The Washington Post, NPR, PBS, Al Jazeera’s Third Rail, Ebony.com, Essence.com, TheRoot.com, and TED.com, and has been named four times to The Root 100.

People in this episode

Host: Arroe Collins

Guest: Brittney Cooper

Topics covered

• mother-daughter bond
• feminism
• resilience
• family love
• empowerment
• children's literature

Keywords

• Brittney Cooper
• Mama Says I'm Fine
• mother-daughter bond
• feminism
• children's literature
• empowerment
• family love

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Rutgers University, Crunk Feminist Collective, MSNBC, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Marie Claire, The Cut, The Washington Post, NPR, PBS

Books & works: Mama Says I'm Fine, Stand Up! 10 Mighty Women Who Made a Change, Feminist AF: A Guide to Crushing Girlhood, Eloquent Rage: A Black Woman Discovers Her Superpowers

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