Doing It My Way

How Author Joan Morgan Raised Her Son to Be a Feminist

The pioneering writer of ‘When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost’ says you can’t just write about your feminism. You must also live it.

Christina M. Tapper
ZORA
Published in
12 min readOct 1, 2020

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A selfie of Joan Morgan smiling while wearing smoky eye makeup.
Joan Morgan, courtesy of herself.

In her writing, Joan Morgan tells it like it is. Her 1999 debut book, When Chickenheads Come Home

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Christina M. Tapper
ZORA
Writer for

Rule breaker, champion of women and education, and recovering sports journalist.