“I thought I was supposed to be a strong Black woman at every moment of my life,” author Stephanie Covington Armstrong tells an audience at a reading and signing of her memoir in Pasadena, CA. “I didn’t know I could get time off.”

Armstrong is a Los Angeles-based writer whose childhood in Brooklyn, NY was marked by poverty, hunger and sexual abuse. Her memoir — Not All Black Girls Know How to Eat — describes her struggle to overcome childhood trauma as well as an eating disorder that she developed in adulthood — Bulimia nervosa.

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