This Thread of Gold: A Celebration of Black Womanhood - Softcover

White, Catherine Joy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0349702624 ISBN 13: 9780349702629

Publisher: Dialogue Books, 2024

Synopsis

**Winner of the 2025 HURSTON/WRIGHT NON-FICTION LEGACY AWARD**

Weaving together narratives that celebrate the triumph of Black female resistance, Catherine Joy White takes us on a unique journey through the eyes of positive and inspiring disruptors.

Throughout history, acts of defiance have taken place in secret, in kitchens, churches, through trusted networks. Others were projected onto a global stage through art, politics and activism.

From Alice Walker to Beyoncé, from Audre Lorde to Doreen Lawrence, from Aretha Franklin to Zendaya: Catherine Joy White charts her own journey to self-discovery through the prism of extraordinary women to create a beautiful tapestry of Black joy.

Taking on the legacy of Angela Davis's Women, Race and Class, Audre Lorde's Sister Outsider and Saidiya Hartman's Wayward Lives, This Thread of Gold brings new life to the history of Black women's resistance.

About this title

About the Author

Catherine Joy White is a gender advisor for the United Nations, writer, actor and filmmaker. Her debut screenplay, Fifty-Four Days, was released in Autumn 2022, and her first book, This Thread of Gold, was published by Dialogue Books in June 2023. She has been honoured as a member of the Forbes 30 Under 30 list, long-listed for AllBright's 'Innovative Trailblazer Award' and heralded as one of 'Five Activists Who Should Be On Your Radar' by the Trouble Club (previous speakers including Gloria Steinem and Margaret Atwood).

From the Back Cover

'Poetic yet punchy, enraging yet uplifting, it transforms our mechanisms for survival and resistance into high art.' Sara Collins, author of The Confessions of Frannie Langton

Weaving together narratives that celebrate the triumph of Black female resistance, Catherine Joy White takes us on a unique journey through the eyes of positive and inspiring disruptors.

Throughout history, acts of defiance have taken place in secret, in kitchens, churches, through trusted networks. Others were projected onto a global stage through art, politics and activism.

From Alice Walker to Beyoncé, from Audre Lorde to Doreen Lawrence, from Zendaya to Billie Holiday: Catherine Joy White charts her own journey to self-discovery through the prism of extraordinary women to create a beautiful tapestry of Black joy.

Taking on the legacy of Angela Davis's Women, Race and Class, Audre Lorde's Sister Outsider and Saidiya Hartman's Wayward Lives, This Thread of Gold brings new life to the history of Black women's resistance.

'Catherine Joy White is an extraordinary writer, the kind who turns non-fiction into poetry . . . A stunning debut from a young author, and yet feels, and reads, like it has been decades in the making' Afua Hirsch, author of Brit-ish


'Shines a spotlight on previously untold stories with grace and nuance - I couldn't put it down.' Ione Gamble, author of Poor Little Sick Girls

Edition details

• Publisher: Dialogue Books
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0349702624
• ISBN 13: 9780349702629
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240