Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: EssaysIn her brand new collection, Phoebe shares stories that will make you laugh, but also plenty that will hit you in the heart, inspire a little bit of rage, and maybe a lot of action. That means sharing her perspective on performative allyship, white guilt, and what happens when white people take up space in cultural movements; exploring what it's like to be a woman who doesn't want kids living in a society where motherhood is the crowning achievement

To save themselves from drowning

But if she doesn’t stick it out and pass the tryouts

Dear Miss Metropolitan tells the fragmented story of Fern

According to philosopher Myisha Cherry

Just right for new and expectant parents

anything is possible when our voices join together

she holds her dreams close

A deeply researched and transporting exploration of the legacy of slavery and its imprint on centuries of American history

But before they know it

Bessie Coleman

and privilege-a life she's not sure she wants-as the object of his unhealthy obsession

What were people like me doing