Miss Behave

Upon encountering historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s quote, ‘well-behaved women seldom make history’, Malebo Sephodi knew that she was tired of everyone else having a say on who and what she should be. Appropriating this quote, Malebo boldly renounces societal expectations placed on her as a black woman and shares her journey towards misbehavior. According to Malebo, it is the norm for a black woman to live in a society that prescribes what it means to be a well-behaved woman. Acting like this prescribed woman equals good behavior. But what happens when a black woman decides to live her own life and becomes her own form of who she wants to be? She is often seen as misbehaving. Miss-Behave challenges society’s deep-seated beliefs about what it means to be an obedient woman. In this book, Malebo tracks her journey on a path towards achieving total autonomy and self-determinism. Miss-Behave will challenge, rattle and occasionally cause you to scream ‘yassss, yassss, yassss’ at various intervals.

Kyla May draws and writes in her journal about her life, her family, and her many daydreams, which repeatedly get her in trouble at the Melbourne, Australia creative arts school she attends.

After Kyla May daydreams about her performance as a pop star in the upcoming drama class talent show, she discovers the power of imagination.

During geography class, Kyla May writes in her journal about daydreams that carry her and her French poodle, Fifi-belle, to Paris, Japan, and other exotic locations far from the Melbourne, Australia, creative arts school she attends.

Containing full pedigree of all the imported thorough-bred stallions and mares, with their produce.