Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Our Recovery is a guide to bringing Black women's well-being and wholeness to the table. Bell Hooks invites us to consider individual healing as the first step toward resisting and confronting systems of oppression. This first Spanish translation seeks to forge links between Black women's forms of organization in the United States and the spaces created by Black and racialized women in the Spanish-speaking world.

This text contains the keys to understanding how sexism, racism, classism, and homophobia undermine the mental and physical health of those subjected to this violence. Phenomena such as substance abuse, stress, and sexual trauma are compassionately addressed by the author, who draws on African-American traditional knowledge to invite readers to recover a deep and respectful relationship with their bodies. Here is a map for learning to name our pain, recognize it, and heal it with the help of our sisters, the family we are born into, and our chosen family.

"Those of us who have committed ourselves to the feminist movement, to the struggle for Black liberation, need to work on our self-realization" - bell hooks

"bell hooks helps us see that self-care goes far beyond an individualistic or selfish issue. It involves understanding that we have to be well to care for others" - Desirée Bela-Lobedde