S3E31: “Dear Black Girl: It (For Real) Takes a Village” x Tamara Winfrey-Harris

“Tell your stories.” – Tamara Winfrey-Harris

Welcome to Season 3 of The Black Adoption Podcast! It’s an honor to be back and to kick things off with noted writer, storyteller, speaker and author, Tamara Winfrey-Harris. She is the best-selling author of Dear Black Girl: Letters From Your Sisters On Stepping Into Your Power and the recently re-released The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America (Second Edition). 

We’re all about changing broken narratives with this podcast and in this conversation Tamara traces her writing journey and her passion behind telling authentic stories of Black women and girls. She also explores how these “broken narratives” around Black women and family continue to shape the Black Adoption conversation. We also get into her extensive personal family genealogy research, the rich stories (and famous relatives) she’s uncovered, and the importance of discovering the heroes in our own families.

“Every birth has a story…” and we hope this episode will inspire you to pick up your pen to own your story and tell it. Whatever your story is, someone else is waiting to be seen in your words.

Take a listen, share, and grab your copy of Dear Black Girl from the BTTB Bookshop linked in the Show Notes!

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RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

• Official Tamara Winfrey Harris Website
• READ: The Sisters Are Alright (Second Ed.) & Dear Black Girl by Tamara Winfrey-Harris
• LISTEN: Black to the Beginning: The Black Adoption Podcast Season 1 & 2        
• REQUIRED READING: Black to the Beginning Reads Bookshop  – A carefully curated list of #BTTBreads…for the culture!
• African Ancestry DNA Testing
• 23andMe DNA Testing

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