How are we holding up? There is so much going on right now that especially impacting our communities and people who look like us. Constant attack on Black and Brown women in power, but also every stressors that are impacting our lives economically, politically, socially, and the like. I want to first share that I see you.
I wrote The Double Tax: How Women of Color are Overcharged and Underpaid because I wanted to make clear to anyone willing to the listen that the individual costs we face as women of color today become societal costs for everyone else tomorrow. I lay out how the expenses of our lives from adolescence through retirement are defined across race, gender, and class in hopes to jumpstart a conversation about how and why womanhood being expensive, especially for women of color, comes at a cost of a better life and a better society.
My hope for you is that you will read this book in community. It’s best read with someone else so you can talk to each other about how these costs show up in your lives. I also hope that you champion solutions shared at the end of each chapter. While the world may be falling apart, we don’t have to fall apart alongside it and this book equips you with tools you can use in your everyday life to ensure that doesn’t happen.
Ultimately, I hope that this book validates you, vindicates you, and empowers you to believe in the sisterhood that we share. Don’t be shy about saying hello and letting me know that you grabbed your copy! Tag @itsafronomics and #TheDoubleTax so I have an opportunity to share!
If you’re in one of our tour stop cities, I hope to see you soon. Take care and thank you so much for supporting this book!
Thank you so much for your support.
