Funding supports: Book development, production and publication
Goal: $12,000

The manuscript is substantially drafted and the editing process has begun. But Hanna faces significant constraints due to her medical condition, requiring strategic editorial support. Financial support will enable completion of developmental editing, outside final edits, and preparation for publication.

This is an investment in literature that will endure—a book offering both mirror and window for readers navigating questions of identity, complicity, courage, and change.

Good Girl (working title) is a collage of persona essays chronicling Hanna du Plessis’s journey from apartheid South Africa through immigration and racial awakening. Written with her signature humor, fresh metaphor, courageous vulnerability, and careful restraint, the memoir refuses both self-congratulation and despair.

This is not a comfortable memoir of redemption and resolution. It’s a quilt of snapshots showing what it actually looks like to delaminate from oppressive systems—religious, racial, familial, national—while building toward wholeness and belonging. Some readers will find it threatening. Others, particularly those navigating similar unmoorings, will find it life-saving.

This is Hanna’s legacy: not a sanitized story of triumph, but an honest accounting of what it costs to choose freedom, connection, and justice over the false safety of silence and complicity.