2019
The Damn Girl Stuff
Paperback
Hardback
LOC
978-1-7330957-0-9
N/A
2019907616
Raw reflections on trauma, transparency, and tough mother-daughter talks. For the mama who wants to stop the cycle and start the conversation.
I was mad at myself because I thought about all the stuff I could have done after the fact. I could have gone to the liquor store across the street from the bus stop. I knew the owners. I could have knocked on the wrong door with a light or something. I also could have made things bad for other people because I didn't know he had a gun.
This is not a parenting book. This is a survival manual passed from mother to daughter in real time. Part diary. Part conversation. All truth.
In The Damn Girl Stuff, Phyllis Williams-Strawder opens her past with raw vulnerability; the trauma, the choices, the generational curses, and the lessons she refuses to pass on to her daughter.
Through stories that span abuse, sexuality, silence, and strength, this second edition is both a reckoning and a release. It’s what happens when a woman refuses to let fear, shame, or cultural complicity define how she raises the next generation.
If you’ve ever wanted to break the cycle, start the conversation, and raise a daughter without bequeathing your baggage, this is the book that will walk you through the fire and back to yourself.