“Edges” refers to the hair at your hairline, and it’s come to mean a few different things in our modern-day lexicon. So, you probably have heard a lot about edges recently. That chapter, and a couple of others, are vulnerable-but I wanted to take that risk and be vulnerable for people who would read the book.”īelow, Brunson shares an excerpt from that very section of her forthcoming debut essay collection, She Memes Well. “I wanted to show the origins of why edges are important but why it can be hurtful sometimes. It goes into who we are as young girls,” she said. “I talk about getting my hair done in my kitchen and going to the salons, and how the hair journey is so multifaceted and not simple. In one chapter of She Memes Well titled “Rough Edges,” Brunson shares her anxieties and vulnerabilities around her relationship to her hair, and the response she received online when sharing images of herself with the world.

In wanting her readers to “feel less alone or embarrassed” in the world, the comedian and actress shares stories both hilarious and heartfelt in the book about her family, opening herself up in a way she never anticipated she would. She Memes Well, a collection of essays about Brunson’s childhood growing up in Philadelphia, becoming a meme, and her experience of working on her craft in the age of Instagram, was born. “It was especially to do that for young girls, especially young Black girls who are from places like where I’m from.” Drawing inspiration from some of her favorite comedy memoirs like Mindy Kaling’s Is Everybody Hanging Out Without Me?, Tina Fey’s Bossypants, and Gabrielle Union’s We’re Going to Need More Wine, the comedian known for her stand-up, short-form video sketches, and sitcom roles put together a collection of essays that could effectively “give a reader somewhere who might need it, a hug through the book,” she told W recently over the phone. When Quinta Brunson sat down to write a book about her journey through viral Internet fame and into Hollywood proper, she immediately knew what she had to do.

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