Former Houston Poet Laureate Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton, editor and debut author Brianna Holt, and Audie Award Winner Melania Luisa Marte join forces to discuss their newest works centering the contemporary experience of young Black women and girls in America. Mouton’s memoir Black Chameleon explores Black womanhood through myth and distinct memories as a child and a mother. Holt’s memoir in essays, In Our Shoes, illuminates stereotypes and preconceived biases against young Black women and girls. Marte’s book of poetry Plantains and Our Becoming tenderly depicts Black diasporic identity, culture, and placemaking. 

Moderator: Leslie Wingo

Book Signing: 12:00 PM at FUMC

Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton, Brianna Holt, Melania Luisa Marte, Black Chameleon: Memory, Womanhood, and Myth, In Our Shoes: On Being a Young Black Woman in Not-So “Post-Racial” America, Plantains and Our BecomingDeborah D.E.E.P. Mouton, Brianna Holt, Melania Luisa Marte, Black Chameleon: Memory, Womanhood, and Myth, In Our Shoes: On Being a Young Black Woman in Not-So “Post-Racial” America, Plantains and Our Becoming