What does it mean to call your own name?

“I Call My Own Name: A Homegirl's Lyrical Memoir of Healing, Hip-Hop, and Holy Reclamation” will give you the audacity to claim what you deserve.

Spoken with love and laughter, “I Call My Own Name” will give you the healing and empowerment you never knew you needed.

Maya Angelou meets Mary J. Blige

A memoir of a Black woman’s journey through single motherhood in the ‘90s, moonlighting as an MC, who goes on to become an English teacher in Brooklyn.

Blending story, bars, scripture, and soulwork, I Call My Own Name traces the head-to-knee-bending, humbling, and healing journey of a woman remembering herself whole. It’s about that hand-on-the-doorknob moment when it becomes less important to be called by name, and infinitely more powerful to decide to call your own, and the courage it takes to open the door and walk on through.

Dionne Grayman (she/her) is a Brooklyn-born educator, writer, healer, and cultural strategist whose work sits at the crossroads of leadership, liberation, and legacy. Her essays and op-eds have appeared in Chalkbeat and the Hechinger Report. She is the co-author of Social and Emotional Learning: Creating Systemic Change in Schools (Harvard Education Press, 2020).

Features
• Mid-life awakening seasoned with ‘90s retrospective
• Self-love for the Mary J generation
• Self-help meets hip hop

Benefits
• Best friend in book form
• Laughter, repair, and a love letter to Black womanhood
• Helps answer the question, What would it look like to know what I deserve?

Ideal reader
• Women in their second act
• Fans of bell hooks and Beyoncé
• Black women and allies craving stories of reclamation, healing, and power

Order Now to receive the Pre-Order Bonus, Beauty-Full in Brooklyn

Readers who pre-order I Call My Own Name by July 1st will receive exclusive access to Beauty-Full in Brooklyn, a digital companion experience created by author, Dionne Grayman, featuring a thoughtfully curated playlist and an audio welcome. Click the link for full details and descriptions of the additional content you’ll receive.

Published by 9th House Press whose mission is to amplify bold new voices.