What if the world’s lies about Black women’s minds could be reduced to ash? What if your healing began not with quieting your rage, but with letting it burn?

In Cinder & Soul, Bakhet Ma’at Sat Ra reframes Black women’s mental health as a site of sacred rebellion. This incendiary manifesto dismantles the myths pathologizing Black femme anger, grief, and “madness,” revealing them as embers of ancestral wisdom and blueprints for liberation.

Sat Ra traces the roots of Black women’s fury, from the Middle Passage to modern-day misogynoir, arguing that what society calls “hostility” is often unprocessed genius, unclaimed power, and unloved parts of the soul.

Through searing personal stories, spiritual revelations, and unflinching critiques of white-centered wellness, Cinder & Soul offers a radical roadmap:

“The BioMythography of Madness”: How anti-Black racism invented “crazy Black bitch” tropes.

“Soul Cinders”: Rituals to transform trauma into sacred fire.

“Kindling the Unspeakable”: Why your rage is a covenant with your ancestors.

“We are not survivors. We are arsonists,” Sat Ra writes. “Burn the scripts. Let your soul rise.”

Drawing on voices from Toni Cade Bambara to Dr. Jennifer Mullan, this book is a love letter to the “difficult” Black women history tries to erase and a call to reclaim our narratives from a world that profits from our exhaustion.

Cinder & Soul is not about healing in spite of your fury, it’s about healing because of it.