A powerful and provocative collection of Essays that offers poignant reflections on living between society\'s most charged, politicized, and intractably polar spaces--between black and white, rich and poor, thin and fat.
She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family..
She served as an advisor on the Peabody-winning podcast, The Promise .
She and her writing have been featured in Vogue , Time , Harper\'s Magazine , The New York Times Book Review , and more.
Henderson Center for Social Justice at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.
She is executive director of the Thelton E.
About author(s): Savala Nolan is a writer, speaker, and lawyer.
Perfect for fans of Heavy by Kiese Laymon and Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay, Don\'t Let It Get You Down delivers an essential perspective on race, class, bodies, and Gender in America today.
Over and over again, Nolan reminds us that our true identities are often most authentically lived not in the black and white, but in the grey of the in-between.
And in "To Wit and Also" we meet Filliss, Grace, and Peggy, the enslaved women owned by Nolan\'s white ancestors, reckoning with the knowledge that America\'s original sin lives intimately within our present stories.
In "Bad Education," we see how women learn to internalize rage and accept violence in order to participate in our culture.
In the titular essay "Don\'t Let it Get You Down," we traverse the cyclical richness and sorrow of being Black in America as Black children face police brutality, "large Black females" encounter unique stigma, and Black men carry the weight of other people\'s fear.
In "On Dating White Guys While Me," Nolan realizes her early romantic pursuits of rich, preppy white guys weren\'t about preference, but about self-erasure.
The result is lyrical and magnetic.
The twelve Essays that comprise this collection are rich with unforgettable anecdotes and are as humorous and as full of Nolan\'s appetites as they are of anxieties.
It is these liminal spaces--of race, class, and Body type--that the Essays in Don\'t Let It Get You Down excavate, presenting a clear and nuanced understanding of our society\'s most intractable points of tension.
She has experienced both the discomfort of generational poverty and the ease of wealth and privilege.
At her mother\'s encouragement, she began her first diet at the age of three and has been both fat and painfully thin throughout her life.
Descended from a Black and Mexican father and a white mother, Nolan\'s mixed-Race identity is obvious, for better and worse.
Savala Nolan knows what it means to live in the in-between.
A powerful and provocative collection of Essays that offers poignant reflections on living between society\'s most charged, politicized, and intractably polar spaces--between black and white, rich and poor, thin and fat
