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In her memoir 'Wannabe,' Aisha Harris examines how '90s pop culture shaped her

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Wannabe, Reckon Means With the Pop Culture That Shapes Me

Aisha Harris has written a new book called Wannabe, Reckon Means with the pop culture that shapes me. The first essay of the book is about your name and how you came to accept its origins. "I had to sort of unpack this like deep seated, like anti blackness that I was kind of giving off in that period"

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