Babygirl, You've Got This! is an important contribution to both education research and anti-oppressive approaches to working with the lived experiences of people whose voices are often marginalized or 'othered'. Pennant's bold and brave approach...foregrounds the experiences of Black girls and women through composite characters, offering a vivid and authentic portrayal of Black girls and women's experiences of education in England.

International Journal of Research & Method in Education

Pennant has provided this generation of black girls and women with tools for understanding and tools for action and for self-affirmation as they participate in the transformation of their world and, commensurately, of the schooling and education system.
She holds up a mirror to that system and to the mandarins that maintain its structures, so that they could see how wasteful, destructive and discriminatory the current structural, curricular, epistemological and awarding arrangements actually are.
Babygirl deserves the widest readership among policymakers, education practitioners and learners across the nation.

Professor Gus John, Education and Human Rights Campaigner

In this ultimate Black girl's survival bible Pennant is babygirl - tenacious, smart, courageously calling out the endemic anti-Black sexualised racism that threatens to limit the life chances of her beautiful Black Sistas as they navigate the still racially unreconstructed hostile White world of school and university. Pennant has gifted us a classic in this intellectually robust, brave, brilliant tour de force!

Heidi Safia Mirza, Author of Young Female and Black, Professor Equalities Studies in Education UCL

Too often we hear about Black Girls and Women and not from them. The women whose articulate voices are showcased here show why we all need to listen to them. Successful in English education, they have important things to say about it.

Sara Delamont, Cardiff University, UK

Through this compelling and much needed text, April-Louise shines a spotlight on the voices and experiences of Black girls and women, ensuring that we are not just acknowledged but genuinely seen and heard.

Dr Dionne Taylor, Associate Professor in Sociology, Birmingham City University, UK

This book makes an important contribution to scholarly understanding of the educational experiences of Black women – a group that are too often forgotten.

Pennant weaves together theory, empirical evidence, lived experience and a clear political commitment, to offer an intervention that centres Black women.

The use of composite characters makes this an incredibly readable book and the love for Black women is clear for all to see.

A must read book for all who interested in racism and education.

Dr Remi Joseph-Salisbury, University of Manchester, UK