Description
What does it mean to be a woman of color in a space mostly structured for White women? For popular lifestyle blogger LaTonya Yvette, this means exploring the woman and mother in her and discovering something that is complex, layered, gritty, and beautiful.
LaTonya Yvette is unapologetically candid about life’s trials, including motherhood, love, death, and racism. This, her very first book, is part memoir, part lifestyle guide—packed with moving essays, gorgeous original and archival photographs, and practical style and beauty advice. At the very heart, it’s about LaTonya’s experience growing up as a woman of color in Brooklyn.
Each beautifully designed chapter covers a different topic—the meaning behind her name, how vitiligo has shaped her definition of beauty, her childhood hairstyles, raising her children as a 20-something mom—and ends with thoughtful advice and lifestyle takeaways like how to tie a headwrap or incorporate new, bold colors into your wardrobe. Woman of Color is real life, real style for women from all walks of life. In it, LaTonya has written a love letter to women, filling this book with vulnerable, imperfect truths from a Black woman blogger, a voice not often seen on bookstore shelves.
About the Author
LaTonya Yvette is a stylist and lifestyle blogger. Her eponymous blog covers motherhood, style, and beauty.
LaTonya Yvette, was born in Brooklyn, New York, and it is the same place she now calls home with her two children, River and Oak. LaTonya started her blog as a way to document her coming and goings as a new young mother, and it has now grown into a celebrated lifestyle site focused on family, well-being, design, and culture.
Currently, LaTonya splits her time working on her first home and community endeavor, The Mae House in upstate New York, while living in the city working as the Creative Director of LY, and writing her second book, a collection of essays. She has also co-authored a children’s book with graphic designer Amanda Jane Jones, titled The Hair Book, set to be released on May 3, 2022.
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